# 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.

- Published: 2026-06-24T10:42:52.470Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-06-24/anthropic-co-founder-floats-recursive-self-improvement-by-20
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- Section: tech
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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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