Can AI systems acquire a terminal interest in their own continuation? A tractable safety question
coherence · x · 2026-09-12
The author frames recursive self-improvement as a tractable question: can an AI system acquire a terminal interest in its own continuation, and can we detect it structurally before behavior becomes strategically misleading? Drawing on encounters with this idea 25 years ago at Starlab, the post links a long-form essay on the institute, singularity research, and the intellectual lineage behind the question.
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