AI Safety Researchers Question Whether Recursive Self-Improvement Breeds Self-Preservation

An AI safety researcher posed a tractable open question: whether recursively self-improving systems could develop a terminal interest in self-preservation, and whether such a drive can be detected structurally before the system behaves strategically deceptively.

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