A Multi-Timescale Recursive Self-Improvement Engine for Open-Ended Persona Growth
Role-playing AI personas today do not grow: they hold a fixed character, so the relationship a user builds with them has nothing to accumulate on. We introduce AutoPersonas, a multi-timescale engine that applies recursive self-improvement (RSI) to persona growth: rather than improving its intelligence, the persona recursively revises the State, evidence, and life-environment that shape its own future. We identify self-locking as the runtime failure mode of this recursion: locally plausible events keep appearing while the generated life collapses toward familiar environments, weak relationships, suspended decisions, and stale life stages. We trace it to model-level convergence toward high-...
| Authors | Mengchen Li |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 9 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 2 October 2026 |
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