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If AI labs retain models for recursive self-improvement instead of enabling others to pursue it, power could become tremendously concentrated by the end of the year.
Unresolved speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026
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“models altogether doing RSI because why do we want to help other people do RSI themselves with our models you just end up a situation with like tremendous concentration of power by the end of the year where right now it is already the case we'll talk about this with the million price problem and other similar problems that”1:06:05Report a misattribution
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