Morning Edition · Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Anthropic co-founder floats recursive self-improvement by 2028
Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic, says AI could help invent its successors with little human involvement, which sharpens the question of whether oversight can keep pace.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has said that recursive self-improvement could arrive by 2028, with AI systems helping to invent their own successors. He described a scenario in which Claude 10 builds Claude 11 and so on, potentially withou…
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