# Recursive-AI Prohibition **Entity class:** Governance concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Regulation **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A recursive-AI prohibition bans or pauses systems defined as capable of improving themselves or their successors. ## Mechanism and significance Its practical difficulty is definitional: ordinary software optimization, model-assisted coding, training-recipe search, and autonomous research can each contain limited forms of recursive improvement. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[AI Infrastructure Consent]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Human Control Over AI Act]] · [[Ro Khanna]] · [[Mandatory AI Containment]] · [[AI Shutdown Control]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.