The Singularity Threshold: When AI Learns to Build Itself

The Signal

When Jack Clark returned from paternity leave last November, the Anthropic co-founder expected to pick up where he left off. Instead, he walked into a workplace that had quietly transformed. His colleagues barely wrote code anymore. Instead, they managed five or six copies of Claude — Anthropic's flagship AI — which sometimes spawned several more Claudes of their own. The humans had become supervisors of machines that supervised other machines. To Clark, as reported by Time in a...