Schmidhuber Riffs on Ezra Klein's Call to Ban AI Recursive Self-Improvement
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-23
Jürgen Schmidhuber shared and quipped about Ezra Klein's call to "ban AI recursive self-improvement," asking "Should I take that as a direct attack?" As the originator of self-improving systems like the Gödel machine, Schmidhuber has long pushed back against mainstream framing of recursive self-improvement as dangerous. The tongue-in-cheek remark nonetheless signals real opposition to AI-safety slowdown proposals, making it a notable data point in the AGI route debate.
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