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What is recursive self-improvement and what would it mean to ban it?

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A post discusses recursive self-improvement in AI and the idea of banning it, noting that frontier AI companies have stated goals of automating their own research.

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“This post was originally written for my Substack . Please feel free to subscribe if this kind of content interests you! Frontier AI companies have long had the stated goal of automating their own research.”
LessWrong, 02 Oct 2026, 22:41.

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