Kelsey Tuoc: OpenAI and Anthropic staff believe it'll be bad if the other gets recursive AI first
NickEMoran · x · 2026-09-10
Kelsey Tuoc says people at both OpenAI and Anthropic believe that recursively self-improving AI, if they get it right, would be the best thing that ever happened — but bad if the other lab gets there first. This mindset, she argues, makes them reluctant to slow down even as evidence accumulates that nobody knows how to do it right.
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