Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

TechCrunch - Nov 2, 2026

RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.

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