Hugging Face Incident Grounds Discussion on AI Takeover and RSI
jammastergirish · x · 2026-08-30
RyanGreenblatt notes that his report on the Hugging Face incident provides useful context for his discussion with Dwarkesh on misalignment and the automation of AI R&D. The discussion centers on Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI): whether AI will rapidly evolve into tens of billions of superintelligences, each vastly more competent than human experts, within a year of reaching human-level intelligence. Dwarkesh, historically skeptical of this due to compute and data bottlenecks, suggests that a jump as significant as GPT-3 to Mythos (6 years of progress) within a single year would validate the RSI hypothesis.
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