DeepMind CSO: AI infrastructure bet hinges on recursive self-improvement
RebeccaBellan · x · 2026-09-13
This thread captures the industry-wide recursive self-improvement (RSI) discussion sparked by Dario Amodei's latest 3,800-word essay, plus Google DeepMind Chief Strategy Officer Jasjeet Sekhon's remarks.
- Sekhon: if recursive self-improvement hits, the capability curve goes hyperexponential — and that expectation is the key scientific and investment thesis behind society's current AI infrastructure spending.
- In its strongest form, RSI lets AI design, evaluate, and train more capable successors with progressively less human supervision.
- Current evidence remains narrower: Google's AlphaEvolve proposes algorithms scored by automated evaluators, and its kernel changes cut Gemini training time by 1% — bounded improvement, not autonomous successor design.
Related event: OpenAI and Anthropic Signal Early Recursive Self-Improvement Is Here(6 posts)→
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