San Francisco, June 5 -- AI startup Anthropic has issued a warning that the fast-paced evolution of the Artificial Intelligence technology is reaching a point where it could design and develop its own successor.

The startup, in a report, said that the company is "delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves, which is speeding up our work".

"Taken far enough, and given enough compute, that trend points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor," Anthropic said.

Calling it recursive self-improvement, the San Francisco-headquartered AI firm said that the world is not there yet, but it could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.

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