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When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement (opens in a new tab)

Progress toward recursive self-improvement in AI

Hacker News· Jun 4, 2026· 8/10

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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…

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