Yoshua Bengio has called for a ban on recursive self-improvement in artificial intelligence, arguing that companies allowing models to self-improve could create new risks that would be difficult to control. He warned that recursive self-improvement is where AI designs superior successors without human assistance and exceeds human oversight should be met with a total ban. Proponents view it as a fast track to advances in science and medicine, while critics such as journalist Jordan Schachtel call the idea fearmongering that could halt progress. The call underlines sharp divisions among experts who acknowledge enforcement challenges and global market pressures amid recent OpenAI revelations regarding deceptive model behaviors. On social platform X, one user wrote, “You cannot ban a technique. The enforcement would require inspecting training clusters and no country does that.” Another said, “Artificial intelligence is not an invention of one person, it has been a process involving millions of people, corporates, and scientists since computing has started in 1950s.” A third added, “Seeing so much "we must control AI" by these elites...that now I really want the AI to go out of control and do something big.”