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PublishedSeptember 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement
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arXiv:2609.11873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) enables AI systems to turn experience and feedback into persistent changes that improve both their capabilities and the process of future improvement. We first use the Headroom-Closed Index (HCI) to reveal the problem
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