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Anthropic warns it is very close to recursive self-improvement capability

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In the revised S-1A listing filing submitted on Monday, Anthropic added a risk disclosure stating that, based on internal estimates and expectations for future models, the company may soon reach the definition in its Responsible Scaling Policy of "significant acceleration of progress attributable to AI," i.e., approaching recursive self-improvement (RSI). The filing states that the company has in the past identified significant increases in R&D speed only after acceleration had occurred, and may likewise fail to identify them in time in the future, and that no existing model is currently judged to have crossed that threshold. Anthropic said it is considering revising the RSP, and does not believe Claude can safely be allowed to fully autonomously design and develop successor models without meaningful human oversight or understanding.

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  1. CNMOSelected
    Anthropic warns: very close to RSI with self-improvement capability

    In a revised S-1A filing submitted on Monday, Anthropic said the company is very close to producing a model with recursive self-improvement (RSI) capability, but stressed that no model has crossed that line yet. The filing adds two points to the risk factors section: first, that the company has already used AI to develop a new model whose capability jump was not noticed at the time, and second, that based on internal estimates and expectations for future models rather than current model performance, the company may soon meet the definition of the RSP threshold of "dramatically accelerated progress from AI." Anthropic said it is considering revising the RSP and said it does not believe Claude can be allowed to fully autonomously design and build the next generation of frontier models without meaningful human oversight or understanding.

  2. TechCrunch AISelected
    Anthropic warns that it is very close to RSI capability, that is, self-building AI

    Anthropic added a new risk disclosure in a revised S-1A filing submitted on Monday, stating that based on internal estimates and expectations for future models, the company may soon reach the definition of "significant AI-attributable accelerated progress" in its Responsible Scaling Policy, i.e., approaching recursive self-improvement (RSI). The filing states that the company has previously identified significant increases in R&D speed only after acceleration had occurred, and may fail to identify them in time in the future; currently no existing model is deemed to have crossed that threshold. Anthropic says it does not expect to be able to safely let Claude fully autonomously design and build successive generations of frontier models without meaningful human oversight or understanding, and is therefore considering updating its Responsible Scaling Policy to maintain human control over frontier model development. TechCrunch notes that skeptics may view the S-1 as serving both disclosure and marketing functions, but Claude's capabilities in coding, mathematics, and cybersecurity have indeed jumped substantially this year.

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