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If AI autonomy is difficult, that difficulty could be one reason an immediate takeoff does not occur.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sep 2026
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“suggest that that's you would yeah exactly i mean this is another possibility which like but i agree like there's no obvious evidence for this like in fact the fact that you know rl agents not being like super persistent and it's quite easy to do this it's kind of evidence against this but like this would be you know potentially like one of the reasons why like we just don't get this like immediate takeoff is like if this is hard”14:19Report a misattribution
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