MIT Technology Review AI - 2026-08-18
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1. We still don’t know how people are really using AI
Author: Eileen Guo
Published: 8/18/2026, 10:06:43 AM
Categories: Artificial intelligence, App, Summary
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a computer science PhD candida...
2. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
Author: Michelle Kim
Published: 8/18/2026, 9:00:00 AM
Categories: Artificial intelligence, App, Summary
The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimize the computer chips they run on. Forecasts of explosive AI progress predict that what researchers c...