Self-Improving AI and Loss of Control Risks: A Plain-English Intro [AI Safety Awareness Group Portland]

AI Safety Awareness Group Portland **A free, 90-minute online workshop—no technical background needed** AI companies are already using their own AI systems to help write code and speed up research. What happens if AI gets good enough to build better AI, which could then build even better AI? Researchers call this **recursive self-improvement**, and many worry it could lead to AI that becomes smarter than humans, not just at chess or writing, but at nearly everything, faster than we can keep up.