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During recursive self-improvement, progress that currently takes three months could occur in one month, while external deployment of AI may lag qualitatively behind internal deployment as progress accelerates.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“if the amount of progress that currently takes, say, three months happens in one month instead,”
“we just don't get the external deployment of AIs as progress speeds up significantly lags in qualitative terms,”
“the internal deployment of AIs.”Play from 1:05:30Report a misattribution
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