Researchers just mathematically proved that AI can't recursively self-improve its way to superintelligence.
Not "we think it's unlikely." Not "it seems hard." Formally proved.
The model doesn't climb toward AGI β it slowly forgets what reality looks like. They call it model collapse. The math calls it inevitable.
I wrote about it π
https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-behind-proves-it/
AI Cannot Self Improve and Math behind PROVES IT! - devsimsek's Blog
A new arXiv paper formally proves that recursive self-improvement in LLMs is mathematically impossible - the mechanism everyone believed would lead to superintelligence is actually a one-way ticket to model collapse. Let's unpack it.

