By FP Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-09-28 16:10:00
AI researchers and policy leaders warn that rapid advances in AI-driven R&D automation could accelerate capabilities faster than governments and institutions can prepare or respond.
World’s foremost AI researchers and policy leaders, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, are warning that AI’s growing ability to automate its own development can rapidly speed up its progress. Such a rapid scale-up in capabilities could leave governments and institutions with little time to prepare for or respond to the consequences, according to them.
A new white paper has highlighted how AI models that can automate the process of improving themselves will create an “intelligence explosion”. It further adds evidence that AI systems at Anthropic and OpenAI are beginning to perform more internal research and development tasks and automate a sizeable portion of engineering tasks.
These developments indicate that the two companies are edging closer to the threshold of recursive…
