Stanford AI100 2026 report ships with a section on recursive self-improvement
conitzer · x · 2026-11-10
Stanford's One Hundred Year Study on AI (AI100) has released its 2026 report, "AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI." Former chair Vincent Conitzer notes he didn't expect the 2026 edition to include a section treating recursive self-improvement as a real thing. The five-year longitudinal series, administered by Stanford HAI and descended from Eric Horvitz's 2008-09 presidential panel, tracks AI's technical, ethical, economic and societal evolution to distinguish lasting shifts from passing trends. Full report at ai100.stanford.edu.
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