Critics call for banning or oversight of OpenAI and Anthropic recursive self-improvement work
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-08
A quoted post argues that people cannot be expected to reason objectively when they profit enormously from one conclusion: many at Anthropic and OpenAI are well-intentioned, but their work on recursive self-improvement urgently needs external oversight. The replying author goes further, saying such work "urgently needs to be banned" — a pointed exchange on frontier lab governance and AGI safety.
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