WIRED: Recursive Self-Improvement Scares Frontier AI Researchers into Resigning

WIRED reports rising safety fears inside frontier AI labs, with ex-DeepMind researcher Rishub Jain resigning over concerns that AI-written code accelerates next-gen model development, as researchers warn of existential risks from recursive self-improvement and agent swarms.

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