Former researchers from Anthropic and OpenAI testified that automating AI research is now the primary goal of the industry, with milestones for an automated researcher reaching 2027 or 2028 on track or ahead of schedule. Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic employee, stated the majority of code is already AI-written without sufficient human review. These disclosures occur as all 51 council members weigh a bill to outlaw the sale of AI models in the city without outside validation, which would include $25K fines per unvalidated deployment and a mandatory human-operated shutdown capability.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Anthropic Only Major Lab to Confirm Recursive AI Coding at NYC Hearing
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OpenAI and Google representatives declined to state whether their systems produce code for next-generation versions of themselves during an Oct. 5 safety inquiry. Anthropic was the only leading firm to acknowledge that its artificial intelligence utilizes a recursive loop, where a model's own output is used in subsequent training rounds to produce a more intelligent successor. Representatives from Meta were unable to say if their models self-generate code as members of the New York City Council questioned the companies on how they quantify risk and whether they have undisclosed cyber incidents.
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