OpenAI chief scientist says internal results give him 'strong expectation' of recursive self-improvement
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-09-10
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says internal results give him a "strong expectation" that AI progress could continue into recursive self-improvement (RSI).
- What RSI means: increasingly capable AI helping develop its own successors — better models doing better AI research, with those discoveries feeding the next generation.
- Priorities: OpenAI believes it could push models further in mathematics research, but is prioritizing RSI and automated alignment research out of felt urgency.
- Alignment warning: Jakub believes no lab has yet solved alignment and monitoring well enough to responsibly scale at maximum speed for much longer, and he expects and hopes for voluntary slowdowns.
The author flags the key metric to watch after Astra: how much of next-model building the current model can take over, and how much faster that could make progress.
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