AI Reports · Harvard · 2026-10-05 · Blog / commentary
Who knew self-improvement could be so terrifying?
This Harvard Gazette interview with law and computer science professor Jonathan Zittrain examines 'recursive self-improvement,' which Anthropic describes as an AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor. Leaders and researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms have recently warned that AI may be slipping free of human control. Zittrain discusses progress toward self-improving AI and the threat it poses.