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It is unclear whether task generalization will be sufficient to make the AI research loop self-sealing without any human involvement.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“of all of these tasks and like some will be very easily verifiable some will be like LMS judge or like just ask the human like does this look reasonable and then you will say the hope would be that like these would all generalize to like these much sort of hard sort of more vague fuzzy kind of tasks and like it probably will to some extent whether it generalizes enough that like we could the loop can become like self-sealing without humans being in the loop at all it's like unclear”Play from 33:29Report a misattribution
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