The interviewer describes the recursive self-improvement argument: after a long initial development, an AGI could help build successors in progressively less time, and each successor would improve.

“the first AGI.”

“Okay, it's going to take us a long time to build it, but you know, but then we can use the AGI to help us build the next one and the next one will be built in a fraction of the time and it will just keep getting better and better and you know, we're seeing hints of this in AI,”