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The first AI systems capable of automating AI research and development will probably combine human feedback that captures researchers' preferences with many practice environments for multi-step research projects.

John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026

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“I think we'll probably do some combination of learning from human feedback to absorb like the researchers taste and just like creating a lot of practice environments which involve like doing multi-step research projects.”

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