
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warns the AI industry to slow down recursive self-improvement, where AI systems like Claude improve themselves without human input, citing rising risks of losing control.
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark urges the AI industry to implement controls on recursive self-improvement, citing Claude's rapid autonomy. Clark warns of losing human control over AI systems. Anthropic's blog post highlights risks and the need for a 'brake pedal'. Evidence shows Claude's increasing capability, including self-run research experiments. The company plans to research a system to monitor the development slowdown, which would require multi-country lab cooperation. ... [Full cleaned article content with preserved quotation marks and paragraph breaks]

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