The speaker suspects people may be misjudging the ease of automating AI research and the degree to which AI research is accelerating.

“which is aiding them and manipulating the process of recursive self-improvement i also think like maybe i am of the opinion maybe like i don't know rsi is a thing that like really kicks up in full gear in the 2030s i just like i i feel like there's maybe a lot of ways in which we could maybe be misunderstanding the ease of automating ai research and stuff like that or how much speed up ai research is really getting it's still i just feel like this the basic story um”