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The White House is reportedly considering an executive order creating an AI working group and a formal review process for new models, abandoning its hands-off doctrine. Anthropic’s Jack Clark puts the odds of recursive self-improvement by the end of 2028 at 60%.

In March his colleague called it a present phenomenon. Two months later the company’s own forecaster is quoting a probability on a date.

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