{"slug": "top-ai-lab-researchers-warned-about-automated-ai-research-and-several-of-their", "title": "Top AI lab researchers warned about automated AI research, and several of their predicted milestones have already fallen", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\nThe article [Top AI lab researchers warned about automated AI research, and several of their predicted milestones have already fallen](https://the-decoder.com/top-ai-lab-researchers-warned-about-automated-ai-research-and-several-of-their-predicted-milestones-have-already-fallen/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/top-ai-lab-researchers-warned-about-automated-ai-research-and-several-of-their", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/top-ai-lab-researchers-warned-about-automated-ai-research-and-several-of-their-predicted-milestones-have-already-fallen/", "published_at": "2026-08-13 10:42:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 10:49:53.452333+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["IAPS", "Severin Field", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Google DeepMind", "Meta"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/top-ai-lab-researchers-warned-about-automated-ai-research-and-several-of-their", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/top-ai-lab-researchers-warned-about-automated-ai-research-and-several-of-their.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/top-ai-lab-researchers-warned-about-automated-ai-research-and-several-of-their.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/top-ai-lab-researchers-warned-about-automated-ai-research-and-several-of-their.jsonld"}}