# Anthropic Is Delegating AI Development to AI Systems by Anthropic > “For most of AI's history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves, which is speeding up our work.” > **— Anthropic**, *When AI Builds Itself, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Timecoded episode recording:** [*The Ezra Klein Show* at 20:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZ90V_JREk&t=1243s) — recording and precise locator for the source object preserved in this Reminder. - **Additional source:** [When AI Builds Itself](https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement) — primary or contemporaneous material supporting the embedded statement or report. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff - Ezra Klein on Recursive Self-Improvement|Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff?]] — preserves broadcast order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions and the surrounding argument. - **Editorial treatment:** The poster text follows the reconciled source object without substantive alteration; spoken punctuation and transcript lineation are normalized for reading. - **Context:** Anthropic states that AI systems already perform a growing share of the work used to develop successor systems. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Anthropic|Anthropic]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Anthropic|Anthropic]] - [[wiki/When AI Builds Itself|When AI Builds Itself]] - [[wiki/Recursive Self-Improvement|Recursive Self-Improvement]] - [[wiki/Research Acceleration|Research Acceleration]] - [[wiki/Automated AI Researcher|Automated AI Researcher]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “For most of AI's history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves, which is speeding up our work.” — Anthropic, When AI Builds Itself, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-anthropic-delegating-ai-development-to-ai-systems ```