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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 16, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
ByteDance, Tsinghua and Shanghai AI Lab Publish a Five-Level Roadmap for Self-Improving AI
The paper arrives three days after Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei argued that recursive self-improvement should be pursued "very carefully, if at all."
Researchers from ByteDance, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, among others, published a survey titled "The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement", which grades recursive se…
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