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# Marina Favaro

Policy lead, Anthropic Institute (as of 2026-10-09; source: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement).

Co-author of Anthropic's 'When AI builds itself' (June 2026) and the R&D Automation Index (Sept 2026).

## In the news (2 events, newest first)

- 2026-09-17: [Anthropic's first R&D Automation Index](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-anthropic-rd-automation-index/), Milestones. AI-driven AI R&D is the core of recursive-self-improvement and "intelligence explosion" concerns.
- 2026-06-04: [Anthropic's 'When AI builds itself'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-04-anthropic-when-ai-builds-itself/), Policy & safety. It is the clearest statement by a frontier lab that recursive self-improvement is a near-term planning case, together with a concrete, conditional pause offer.

Profile checked 2026-10-09.