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There is no obvious evidence that AI autonomy is unusually difficult, and the limited persistence of reinforcement-learning agents provides some evidence against that possibility.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 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”Play from 14:19Report a misattribution
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