@AnthropicAI: None of this guarantees recursive self-improvement is on the horizon. It’s not yet clear that Claude is capable of rese…
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Anthropic discusses the plausibility of AI systems designing their own successors, noting Claude may approach research-level judgment, and announces the Anthropic Institute to study implications of increasingly powerful, potentially self-improving AI systems.
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