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As AI companies get closer to recursive self-improvement,' this physics professor calls full autonomy the worst idea in the history of humanity'

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The prospect of artificial intelligence models teaching themselves autonomously to be more efficient and capable appears ever closer to reality.

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  1. 2026-09-19 15:18 · Fortune AI
    As AI companies get closer to recursive self-improvement,' this physics professor calls full autonomy the worst idea in the history of humanity'

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