Think Tank Proposes 'Reorient the Frontier': SI Firms Should Drop Recursive Self-Improvement
peterwildeford · x · 2026-10-21
The America First Policy Institute's new paper, prompted by the Hugging Face incident and other recent events, proposes "Reorient the Frontier": superintelligence companies would commit to abandoning recursive self-improvement—SI systems running without human input or oversight—and instead devote the majority of their computing power to useful consumer products and new science benefiting humanity.
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