The murky AI milestone that has some of the industry’s leading voices increasingly on edge
THE SO WHAT
When CEOs start talking publicly about recursive self-improvement, they’re telling you they see a non-zero path where capability growth outruns human oversight. For operators, that means model governance, kill switches, and dependency mapping can’t be an afterthought — they’re part of basic operational risk management now.
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