4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The speaker expects humans to continue defining desired AI behavior and objectives—including helpfulness, human-feedback objectives, constitutions, and model specifications—even if AI systems can perform all technical work.

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

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“something like deciding what how is it like the AI the assistants should behave or what it means to be helpful or what's like the objective when we're doing our all from human feedback is one such thing and then like then later like defining like constitutions and model specs is another one and I think even if the AIs can do all the technical work we'll have to still do a lot of that and decide what we actually want.”
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