Eric Schmidt

New Capabilities

Warning about imminent recursive self-improvement and regulatory response

In May 2025, DeepMind's AlphaEvolve became the first commercial AI to optimize its own training—shaving 23% off a critical computation kernel. Since then, the loop has tightened: by April 2026, Anthropic's Claude agents were outperforming human alignment researchers on safety experiments, and GPT-5.5 had rewritten its own serving infrastructure to run 20% faster.

Updated May 19