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AI-assisted work is bottlenecked by models' weaker capabilities, poorer judgment, and insufficient ability to check their own work.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“But like you end up getting bottlenecked by the places where the model is weaker and where it has worse judgment or the models can't check themselves well enough.”Play from 2:00Report a misattribution
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