AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all - MIT Technology Review

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Small artificial intelligence models could soon begin self-replicating on everyday consumer products such as smart TVs and fridges, without needing a data centre, according to researchers at AI giant Anthropic. In a report released on Monday, the researchers said small AI models “may be months away from being capable enough” to copy themselves on internet of things (IoT) devices used in homes and small businesses. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Poland says two Turks arrested over Russia-linked Starlink station firelist 2 of 4US archbishop says Catholics in army should not participate in firing squadlist 3 of 4Two deaths reported as Hurricane Simon, storm Rachel batter Mexico’s coastlist 4 of 4Houthi missile attack targets Saudi capital Riyadh for third day in a rowend of listAnthropic’s frontier red team, which ran experiments using multiple US- and Chinese-developed AI models, said such self-replicating AI would be “challenging to shut down” due to the lack of a centralised host.

Editor’s note: In addition to tracking technological advancements and innovations, our author is a Juilliard-trained composer. Listen to “Self Governance”, an original improvisation by Howard Lieberman, performed for this column. In control. https://berkshireedge-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Self-Governance.mp3Last week, I wrote about governance as a technology: a collection of mechanisms that permit complex systems to receive feedback, experience consequences, detect errors, and correct themselves. But technology does more than give us increasingly powerful tools. It changes what individuals, organizations, communities, and nations are capable of doing for themselves—and therefore changes what they need from others. Self-governance is the ability of a system to perform its necessary regulatory functions without outside interference. At the level of nations, we call this sovereignty. At the level of individuals, we often call it agency. Perhaps one of the most important consequences of technological innovation is that it continually changes the boundary between what we can govern by ourselves and what must be governed for us.

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