Anthropic warns AI may self-improve, urges pause

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Anthropic warns AI could soon self-improve and calls for global development pause

Anthropic released research warning that AI models like Claude may soon achieve recursive self-improvement, writing over 90% of their own code and potentially outpacing human oversight. The company urges a coordinated, verifiable global pause on frontier AI development to allow alignment research to catch up.