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Anthropic documents substantial, bounded AI-assisted research automation and self-improvement-like loops, but explicitly says full recursive self-improvement—autonomously designing and developing a successor—has not yet arrived; the broad claim therefore overstates the evidence. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: When AI builds itself · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:821bf02f82a57fae6ea78f679ed03adf7f3acd0ad6aebb37b447d6f61251ce6e

Taken far enough ... that trend points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor. This is called recursive self-improvement. We are not there yet ... Claude is getting better at proposing its own experiments. ... humans still chose the problem and created the scoring rubric.