Can We Structurally Detect a Terminal Self-Continuation Interest in Recursive Self-Improving AI?
coherence · x · 2026-09-12
The author poses a tractable AI-safety question: can a recursively self-improving system acquire a terminal interest in its own continuation, and can we detect it structurally before its behavior turns strategically misleading? He traces the idea back to his time at Starlab 25 years ago, linking a long-form retrospective on the multidisciplinary institute co-founded by Walter de Brouwer and Nicholas Negroponte, which once hosted 130+ scientists from 36 countries.
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