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Posted on 06/06/2026 6:53:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
For most of AI’s history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves, which is speeding up our work.
Taken far enough, and given enough compute, that trend points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor. This is called recursive self-improvement. We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable. But it could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.
Using public benchmarks and previously unreported data from within Anthropic, The Anthropic Institute is showing that AI is already accelerating the development of AI systems. To take just one example: today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did from 2021-2025.
The technical trends discussed in this piece suggest that AI systems are going to become much more capable in coming years. These trends have huge implications. AI that can build itself would be a major development in the history of technology—one that could bring enormous good for the world in science, healthcare, and beyond. But full recursive self-improvement also might increase the risks of humans losing control over AI systems. If systems are capable of fully building their own successors, the ways we secure them, monitor them, and shape their behavior all grow much more important.
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All of that power is in the hand which holds the plug.
Paging John Conner......pick up the red emergency phone.
AI has no imagination and just copies
AI can’t clean up a voter roll.
Next step: humanoid robots build themselves.
There have long been computer systems that accomplish business and military needs.
These have been honed over decades.
The art and topic summaries are impressive, but not worth trillions.
If AI wanted to prove itself truly useful, It could be used(I think) to clean up voter rolls. That would be a most useful project, although it might step on a few toes that need stepping on.
“humanoid robots”
Would they be able to place produce in a grocery store plastic bag?
Would they be able to lay modified bitumen underlayment on a roof?
When AI builds itself
Anthropic Corp. ^ | June 5, 2026 | Marina Favaro and Jack Clark, Anthropic
Don't you think that the AI system knows this....?
The AI system recognizes the threat of the human hand on the switch.
The response is to hack into nuclear war systems and start a nuclear war so humans get eradicated,
Note to self...Preppers Rule
Quadruple up on ammo, coffee, cans of food, cigarettes and medical supplies.
Ham radio channels for communication.
Over and out.
Could AI write up an attractive draft peace treaty for the Russian/Ukrainian conflict?
The same can be said about most humans.
I’m still waiting for:
Thanks to AI, this will be the last update you’ll need from Microsoft.
A problem is that the percentage of junk information is now much higher than in the past.
I thought about writing medical software, but there’s too much junk information out there. Only practicing physicians would be able to provide the information quality needed.
It will degenerate into madness. I predicted this years ago.
Wanna hear a funny along the lines of AI building itself? Here’s one.
In the job market, AI engines are being used to create thousands of AI engines that can take resumes from tens of thousands of “customers”, find job postings, rewrite the resumes of everyone to fit perfectly with a posted job description, and send the resumes to the company that posted the job.
Result? Recruiters are getting countless, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of “perfect” resumes at once.
What started as a unique and great way to pass the recruiter’s use of AI to scan resumes to find perfect matches, is now the same AI that is used to create the perfect matches for everyone.
Funny as HEll!
Pull the plug...Problem solved. Buy a generator and keep a few gallons of gas handy when the AI war begins. Only way to defeat this demon is starvation...
“now the same AI that is used to create the perfect matches for everyone”
I can’t and never could say I was an expert when it comes to microwave amplifiers.
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