NYT Profiles the Recursive Self-Improvement Startups, Including Jeff Clune's Recursive Superintelligence
jeffclune · x · 2026-09-16
A Cade Metz NYT feature covers the startups chasing 'recursive self-improvement'—AI learning to build and train itself, promising exponential progress and risk. Jeff Clune co-founded Recursive Superintelligence. In December, leading researchers Edward Hughes and Louis Kirsch left Google to found London startup Inherent, whose prototype Faraday ingests the team's emails, messages, meeting transcripts, and chats to build better versions of itself. Inherent pledges human involvement, but many companies are building similar tech, and some top researchers believe AI will eventually reach the 'liftoff' scenario doomsayers fear.
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