You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Jeff Clune, a computer scientist and co-founder of Recursive Superintelligence, one of the start-ups chasing “recursive self-improvement.”Credit...Alana Paterson for The New York Times“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk.Jeff Clune, a compute...