"Window for action may close" if AI begins improving itself, AI pioneers warn

Some of the world's foremost AI researchers and policy leaders — including at OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft — are warning that AI's growing ability to automate its own development could rapidly speed up its progress.Why it matters: Such a rapid scale-up in capabilities would leave governments and institutions with little time to prepare for or respond to the consequences, they say.In one scenario, they caution, a year's worth of advances could occur in a matter of weeks.The warning's authors include Turing Award winners such as Geoffrey Hinton, as well as OpenAI's chief scientist, Microsoft'