Will it take a ‘Chernobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate cyber weapons of mass destruction? | Stuart Russell
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Stuart Russell, a leading AI safety researcher, warns that unrestricted development of unsafe AI systems poses serious risks to society. He highlights concerns about recursive self-improvement (RSI, where an AI system teaches itself to become smarter, creating a cycle of increasing capability), which Anthropic recently reported observing in early development stages.
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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/17/anthropic-ai-rsi-fable
First tracked: June 17, 2026 at 08:00 AM
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