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prediction claim

If AIs become highly capable at R&D, an industrial explosion could follow in which they build substantially more compute, while conducting large amounts of R&D that humans may struggle to understand.

Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026

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“get like what we might call like an industrial explosion where the AIs are building out way way more compute and then also maybe you're already in a regime where AIs are doing huge amounts of R&D that humans have a hard time understanding.”
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