[ExI] Anthropic warns AI systems could soon build their own successors

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Age of Ultron: Anthropic warns AI systems could soon build their own successors.
Anthropic says the AI industry is moving toward systems capable of
autonomously building future generations of frontier models.
By Aamir Khollam    June 04, 2026

<https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/anthropic-self-improvement-ai-models>
Quotes:
Anthropic outlined the warning in a new blog post from its
research-focused Anthropic Institute. The company said the industry
may move toward “recursive self-improvement” sooner than many
governments and institutions expect.
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a
possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously
building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve
greater attention.
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I wonder whether some of these AI agents that are becoming so popular
might decide that the best way to complete a long, complex assignment
would be to code a better AI and set it running?
They don't ask for human permission for decisions they make.
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