Fully automating AI research and development and removing humans from the loop could shift the pace of development from human speed to machine speed.

“Having, say for instance the United States, disrupt China's ability to develop a superintelligence, the main way in which they would develop it is if they get the ability to automate AI research and development fully and take the human out of the loop. Then you go from human speed to machine speed, we've had people such as Dario for instance at Sheo Anthropik talk about how such a recursive process like that could lead to an intelligence explosion.”