freedom100m/Shutterstock The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. Most recently, its executives wrote about the threat posed by “recursive self-improvement”. This is the point when AI systems can improve themselves by themselves, potentially leading to “superintelligence” far beyond human control. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable,” the Anthropic blogpost declared.