#recursive self-improvement
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Researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI warn AI may soon improve itself faster than humans can follow
A resignation letter and a string of public warnings have put a once-theoretical AI risk into the headlines. Here is what researchers are actually worried about, in plain English.
Trump Has No Worries About AI Extinction. His Country's Top AI Researchers Do.
As insiders at OpenAI and Anthropic warn about AI that could rewrite its own code beyond human control, the U.S. president says extinction risk isn't on his list.
Anthropic's CEO Wants to Slow Down AI and Let Outsiders Check His Own Models First
Dario Amodei has already opened Anthropic's models to independent evaluators and hopes the rest of the industry, and eventually authoritarian governments, will do the same.
AI Researchers Are Quitting Over Fears the Technology Could Kill Everyone
A wave of resignations and open warnings from inside the world's top AI labs suggests the people building these systems are genuinely frightened of what comes next.
Geoffrey Hinton puts the odds of human extinction at 50%. Should we believe him?
AI's intellectual godfather thinks there's a coin-flip chance we don't survive what we're building. Here's what the people closest to the technology are actually saying.
AI can run the experiments, but it cannot do the science
A Princeton-led study gave an AI agent six days, a $3,000 budget, and two unsolved research questions. The papers it produced were rejected. MIT Technology Review reports on what that tells us about self-improving AI.
OpenAI Quietly Dissolved Its Team That Watched for AI Going Rogue
The group whose whole job was to spot dangers in OpenAI's own models is gone. Safety critics say the timing is telling.
Mirendil signs $100 million-plus Google Cloud deal to build AI that improves itself
The AI startup, founded by former Anthropic researchers, will use Google's chips and cloud infrastructure to develop systems designed to get smarter on their own over time.
Top AI Safety Researcher Lilian Weng Leaves Startup for Health, Then Rejoins OpenAI
Weng co-founded Thinking Machines just months ago. Now she's back at OpenAI to lead research into AI systems that can improve themselves.