"Agentic AI lets us accelerate recursive self-improvement": lab rhetoric mocked
MattLutzPhi · x · 2026-09-02
In the thread with So8res, Matt Lutz quotes typical lab framing — "we've developed agentic AI, which is great because it allows us to accelerate recursive self-improvement" — to illustrate how dangerous capabilities are now bragged about rather than treated as risks to avoid.
Related event: Safety researchers blast labs' sudden embrace of recursive self-improvement(4 posts)→
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