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SPEAKER_04 believes it is now difficult to separate labs’ effort on direct recursive self-improvement from effort on generally intelligent models deployed to earn revenue that funds subsequent large training runs.

Unresolved speaker · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sep 2026

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“Yeah, I think it's now hard to separate out like how much of the lab's effort is going towards like direct RSI versus like making generally intelligent models that they can continue to deploy to collect revenue to fund the next big training run.”

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