Anthropic alignment lead. In this corpus he appears once, quoted in TIME’s March 2026 profile of Anthropic saying that recursive self-improvement is not a future phenomenon but a present one — the bluntest first-party statement of the newsletter’s central claim, made in the alignment-lead role at the lab whose models write most of the code behind their successors.
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Evan Hubinger
Anthropic alignment lead who in March 2026 called recursive self-improvement a present phenomenon rather than a future one.
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- Welcome to March 16, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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