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Anthropic is questioning whether AI may turn out to be altogether useless.
This misstates Anthropic's article. The piece argues AI is already accelerating AI development and could have major positive and disruptive effects; the quoted passage only says recursive improvement would still face real-world bottlenecks.
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Anthropic's article does not question whether AI might be "altogether useless."
What the article actually says is:
- AI is already accelerating Anthropic's work.
- AI systems are likely to become much more capable in coming years.
- AI that can build itself could bring "enormous good" in science, healthcare, and beyond.
- Even in a slower scenario, Anthropic says it would still expect major changes in the world.
The quoted paragraph is making a narrower point: even if recursive self-improvement happens, that does not automatically eliminate external bottlenecks such as multi-year drug follow-up, constitutionally scheduled elections, or the time required to build human relationships. In other words, Anthropic is arguing that faster intelligence does not instantly speed up every part of society. That is very different from saying AI may be useless.
So the post's claim is incorrect because it reverses the meaning of Anthropic's article: Anthropic is discussing limits on the pace of downstream social change, not suggesting that AI has no value or may turn out to be useless.
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- When AI builds itself | Anthropic
"Using public benchmarks and previously unreported data from within Anthropic, The Anthropic Institute is showing that AI is already accelerating the development of AI systems." The same article says: "The technical trends discussed in this piece suggest that AI systems are going to become much more capable in coming years" and that AI capable of building itself could bring "enormous good for the world in science, healthcare, and beyond."
- Introducing The Anthropic Institute | Anthropic
Anthropic writes that AI progress has moved "incredibly quickly," that its models can "take on a wide range of real work, and even begin to accelerate the pace of AI development itself," and that transformative AI could deliver "radical upsides ... in science, economic development, and human agency."