Microsoft AI's Suleyman ties Anthropic resignation to recursive self-improvement risk
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-05
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, linked the recent high-profile Anthropic resignation to recursive self-improvement risk on The Rest Is Politics: Leading. He argued the major safety concern arises when AI modifies its own code with less and less human oversight — something he called "a pretty hard thing to audit" — suggesting this dynamic is what triggered the resignation weeks ago.
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