# 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."

- Published: 2026-09-16T06:18:31.385Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-16/bytedance-tsinghua-and-shanghai-ai-lab-publish-a-five-level
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13406)

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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