alphaXiv(@askalphaxiv):“The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement” This paper argues that true recursive self-improvement isn’t just AI getting better at tasks, but AI getting better at getting better. They map a path from AI simply executing human-designed improvements to choosing its own improvement strategies, generating its own learning experiences, adapting from deployment, and eventually modifying the mechanisms that create future improvements. The endgame is moving from humans building each better AI to building an AI whose improvements persist, feed into the next generation, and recursively improve the improvement process itself.

2026.09.13 11:00

“The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement” This paper argues that true recursive self-improvement isn’t just AI getting better at tasks, but AI getting better at getting better. They map a path from AI simply executing human-designed improvements to choosing its own improvement strategies, generating its own learning experiences, adapting from deployment, and eventually modifying the mechanisms that create future improvements. The endgame is moving from humans building each better AI to building an AI whose improvements persist, feed into the next generation, and recursively improve the improvement process itself.