self-building AI

Anthropic signals AI may soon be able to improve itself

Anthropic's warning about recursive self-improvement lands like a quiet alarm. RSI is the threshold where AI gets good enough at training itself to trigger a dramatic acceleration in capability, and for doomers it is the point of no return. That framing deserves attention, though the gap between a signal and a certainty is where most of us actually live. Our coverage of AI's hidden footprint makes a similar point: knowing the numbers is easy, deciding what to do with them is the hard part.