Critic: Anthropic backs recursive self-improvement at full speed while only talking about safety
peterwildeford · x · 2026-11-07
peterwildeford criticizes Anthropic for a say-do gap on recursive self-improvement (RSI): the lab considers RSI dangerous yet is pursuing it as fast as possible.
The quoted Andrew Curran post adds context: since Dario said at the WEF that Anthropic was "leaning into" RSI, the lab has been "pedal to the metal." They said they support pacing — not that they were actually pacing. The author quips that we'll likely get more 10K-word safety essays rather than real slowdown measures.
A representative intra-community critique of frontier labs' safety rhetoric vs. actions.
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