Pope Leo XIV offered a information during an informal yet substantive encounter with journalists outside Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo on June 16. Photo: Vatican Media

Anthropic and Claude warn of the “recursive self-improvement” of artificial intelligence and its serious implications for humanity

According to the company, current AI systems are already assuming a growing share of the coding work used to develop future models. Anthropic noted that the amount of work its systems can perform autonomously is increasing at an extraordinary pace. While the company stressed that fully autonomous self-improvement has not yet been achieved and may never occur, its researchers acknowledged that many institutions appear unprepared for the possibility.