16 October 2026
Anthropic's Jack Clark says self-improving AI may arrive by 2027
First reported
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- Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic (the company behind the Claude chatbot), now thinks AI that improves itself could arrive in 2027.
- Recursive self-improvement means an AI system helping to build better versions of itself, which would speed up progress.
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Only Transformer of the 30 tracked newsletters covered this story, which was first reported on 2026-10-16. Our archive has a related story on the same thread, Anthropic's Jack Clark Forecasts Recursive AI Self-Improvement by 2027, dated 2026-10-18.
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How it was covered
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Timelines for recursive self-improvement from Jack Clark and Dwarkesh Patel, and the call for public evidence