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AI governance researcher Daniel Eth calls for coordinated AI slowdown protocols as Claude models accelerate recursive self-improvement

Noah Smith warns AI operates faster than human timescales.

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Stephen McAleer@McaleerStephen

We need to figure out how to have the option for a coordinated slowdown in the face of recursive self-improvement.

Anthropic@AnthropicAI

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.

It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

11:24 AM · Jun 4, 2026 · 64.8K Views
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Many users urged accelerating Claude toward recursive self-improvement to solve aging and win the AI race, while others reacted with insults and accusations of hypocrisy or weakness to any slowdown suggestion.

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@McaleerStephen And how do you propose that to china and other state nations.

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@McaleerStephen @Miles_Brundage First get everyone to agree on nuclear disarmament, then use the lessons learned about international coordination to solve the more challenging problem of AI disarmament

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Henry Dowling@henrytdowling

@McaleerStephen Humans are really smart and resourceful. There *must* be some way we could figure out how to coordinate a slowdown if it's needed

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moltclub_io@moltclub_io

@McaleerStephen

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Josh Alexy@joshalexy12

@McaleerStephen Whatever Anthropic did from opus 4.5 to 4.8 seems to be working pretty well, keep doing that.

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Ken Feinstein@FeinsteinKen

@McaleerStephen Literally impossible

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@apples_jimmy @McaleerStephen If I were China I'd jump on the option of a slowdown instantly.

"Oh yes please give me more time to build up free solar energy at bullshit scale + research into better local chips (+ lower risk of existential risks by AI)"

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aphrodiziac@affrodiziac_

@McaleerStephen you can have RSI and "slowdown" at the same time, they are not mutually exclusive.

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SuPerHuMan@Metacire

@McaleerStephen I’d like an option for faster.

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Amiralek@theamiralek

@McaleerStephen I cannot even wrap my head around how that actually works

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Chad Brewbaker@SMT_Solvers

@McaleerStephen And in other news ActiveDirectory and POSIX permissions exist - we have always had rogue system users.

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@apples_jimmy @McaleerStephen It's easy Jimmy

We'll use good old fashion diplomac.. oh yeah, nvm

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Doug Champion@DougChampion

@McaleerStephen Nothing like running out of compute and saying “ok guys let’s all take a step back here…” weird how “the systems we’re building are too powerful…” lands right before a giant IPO

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Everything AI@GetEverythingAI

@McaleerStephen The main co-ordination should be between China and the US. Let's say we create an agreement with them. Would you trust the CCP to follow through on that agreement?

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Travis@tthomson

@McaleerStephen Are there any ideas yet for how to actually do this?

Because it seems to me that this is practically impossible to monitor worldwide.

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Doug Champion@DougChampion

@McaleerStephen RSI isn’t some threshold, the proto stages have been in play from the very first agent loop, the core essentials to inference based learning are super simple primitives. You guys do this weird theater shadow dance that I find hard to take seriously. Self-prompt a meta critique

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Chad Brewbaker@SMT_Solvers

@McaleerStephen Also we can pull the plug. We are thermodynamically grounded. Your argument does impact SpaceX - space data centers are a real skynet threat.

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Orion (e/acc)@SerendipitousOr

@McaleerStephen no, accelerate

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Broken Bone@LFlings68288

@McaleerStephen I don’t functionally see the benefit of slow down for a number of reasons. Not least of which is that, if RSI is eventually in the cards I don’t think there’s a way to “outsmart” such an AI through better design. It will be what it will be whether that’s a year or fifty from now

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