(Wired) – Earlier this year, Rishub Jain left his position as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind after a revelation.

As he worked on new models, he came to believe that he and everyone else on AI’s frontier were ceding control. By using AI’s coding skills to accelerate work on the next generation of models, he was removing himself from the equation. AI labs hope to evolve this approach to the point that AI will improve itself indefinitely, a process known as recursive self-improvement.

Jain believed that keeping humans in the picture might be crucial to maintaining control over the technology—and avoiding dire consequences. (Read More)