As US Labs Debate Slowing Down, Chinese Researchers Publish Roadmap to Recursive Self-Improvement
kimmonismus · x · 2026-09-15
While US frontier labs debate slowing AI development, researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong, Theseus Labs, Tsinghua, ByteDance and others have published "The Last AI Built by Humans," a roadmap toward recursive self-improvement. It maps five stages, from executing improvements to changing the process that produces future improvements — a signal, the author argues, that China is accelerating while the US hesitates.
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