The Illusion of Autonomy: Why AI Agents Are Failing at the Frontier of Open-Ended Research
Executive Overview The prevailing narrative in Silicon Valley suggests that artificial intelligence is on the precipice of a runaway feedback loop. According to tech industry titans, venture capitalists, and frontier labs, the Holy Grail of recursive self-improvement—where AI systems independently accelerate their own development, rewrite their underlying architectures, and engineer smarter successors with minimal human…