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Top AI lab researchers warned about automated AI research, and several of their predicted milestones have already fallen

IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and US universities about recursive self-improvement, and several of the milestones they predicted for automated AI research have already been reached, according to a new blog post by Field.

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IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, Meta, and US universities about recursive self-improvement. In a new blog post, he takes stock. Several of the milestones those researchers named have already been hit.

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