Recursive AI Capabilities

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LLM Summary:This page contains only component placeholders with no actual content about recursive AI capabilities - where AI systems improve their own capabilities or develop more advanced AI systems. Cannot be evaluated as it provides no information.

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• GapAI-assisted alignment research is underexplored: current safety work rarely uses AI to accelerate itself, despite potential for 10x+ speedups on some tasks.S:3.5I:4.0A:4.8

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See also:LessWrongAI Safety Info

AI systems used to accelerate AI research itself, creating feedback loops where improvements enable faster improvements. This is the core mechanism of potential intelligence explosion.

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What Enables Recursive AI Improvement?

Causal factors affecting AI's ability to accelerate its own development. AlphaEvolve achieved 23% speedups; Meta investing $70B in AI labs.

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Scenario	Effect	Strength
AI Takeover	↑ Increases	medium
Human-Caused Catastrophe	—	medium
Long-term Lock-in	↑ Increases	strong

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• Sharp Left Turn
• Emergent Capabilities

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• AI-Assisted Alignment

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• Intervention Timing Windows

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