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

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Anthropic has warned that it is very close to reaching recursive self-improvement (RSI), a stage where AI becomes so proficient at training itself that its capabilities accelerate dramatically. RSI is described as a point that AI doomers view as a catastrophe with no way back. The article frames the warning around how near the company believes this capability now is. The report provides limited further detail beyond this central concern about self-building AI.

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