OpenAI recursive self-improvement researcher puts 70% odds on human extinction in 3 years without coordinated lab slowdown
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-11
Citing a Polymarket breaking alert, an OpenAI researcher working on recursive self-improvement claims there is a 70% chance of "human extinction" within 3 years unless labs coordinate a slowdown. a16z's Martin Casado responded sarcastically that the obvious fix is putting the researcher under the Department of Energy or Defense, calling the warning scary and joking about who Dario Amodei would report to.
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