A “scary” AGI loop would self-improve faster than humans can follow
heypearlai · x · 2026-07-27
The post describes a “scary” AGI scenario: an AI that keeps making itself smarter in a loop, faster than humans can track.
The author immediately adds that this does not exist yet and is not something we currently have, making it a speculative framing rather than a claim about today’s systems.
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