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OpenAI lays out its progress towards 'recursive self-improvement'—even as its chief scientist warns of the risks and says he hopes for a slowdown

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OpenAI is now using its own AI agents to produce more than three days of research output for every day that its human researchers work. That was one of many telling stats from two blog posts OpenAI published on Sunday, over the Labor Day weekend, that looked at how the company is using AI itself to…

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  1. 2026-09-08 17:41 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    OpenAI lays out its progress towards 'recursive self-improvement'—even as its chief scientist warns of the risks and says he hopes for a slowdown

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