Researchers at DeepMind and Anthropic: no viable scientific plan exists for recursively self-improving AI risks
sjgadler · x · 2026-09-10
A researcher who worked at Google DeepMind and now Anthropic, speaking in personal capacity, says a common sentiment among peers is that "there is not yet a viable scientific plan to solve risks from recursively self-improving AI."
It quotes a resigned Anthropic pretraining researcher who spent three years across OpenAI and Anthropic, accusing both companies of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."
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