Dario Amodei

"The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement" argues that most of what's called RSI in 2026 is really AI executing human-designed improvements faster, not AI choosing its own improvement strategy. The paper maps four stages from that starting point to a system that modifies the mechanisms creating future improvements — the actual bar for "genuine" RSI. Here's the roadmap and why it's a more useful framework than the industry's looser usage of the term.

Mustafa Suleyman posted Microsoft AI's "Code of Conduct for Humanist AI" on September 14, 2026, open for public comment for six weeks. It rejects model welfare and AI rights outright, bans "neuralese" reasoning humans can't read, and requires every MAI model to be interruptible, correctable, and shut-down-able before it ships. Here's what each of the 10 points actually commits Microsoft to.

In a September 14, 2026 post on X, Sam Altman said OpenAI now writes explicit "safety cases" in advance of frontier reinforcement learning runs expected to significantly increase capability — moving beyond Preparedness Frameworks that governed only finished-model deployment. He welcomed a federal framework and independent auditors but said labs shouldn't wait for legislation to start.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted a principle on September 14, 2026 — any pursuit of superintelligence must keep AI helpful and under human control, with benefits diffused broadly rather than held by a handful of labs. Backing it, Microsoft is publishing a "Code of Conduct" for its first-party MAI models for public consultation, alongside enterprise control over learning loops. Here's what he actually committed to versus what's still just a principle.