OpenAI claims strong progress on automated AI researcher; Pachocki expects momentum into RSI
thedealdirector · x · 2026-09-08
Key takeaways from OpenAI's latest announcements:
- OpenAI says it is "making strong progress" toward an automated AI researcher, seen as a precursor to training models far surpassing human capabilities.
- Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki: "I have a strong expectation that our speed of progress could be sustained into RSI."
- The automated researcher will work under human supervision; a "north star" is keeping people in the self-improvement loop and using it as an automated safety/alignment researcher.
- Whether to pursue rapid recursive self-improvement depends on preserving safety and controllability.
The poster quips the capability will mostly end up updating Salesforce via Codex Bot.
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