# Bad Influence story: Dean W. Ball says METR's Anthropic study shows weak AI recursion, not strong

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-10 12:24. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/f4b63b4e-54d0-4b31-8733-89c0057fd8d0

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Latest update (11-10 12:24): Dean W. Ball argues METR's Anthropic findings show weak recursion, not strong

Overview: Dean W. Ball says METR's study of Anthropic, which found the company's capability improvement roughly doubled, shows weak recursion: AI serves as an input to better AI under human direction. He says the evidence does not yet show strong recursion, in which AI autonomously plans and executes development of its successor.

Ball argues that AI safety policy should treat the two differently. He says broad bans on AI-assisted AI development would also block work in biomedicine and safety research.

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