Recursive Self-Improvement Beyond the Hype: AI Can Improve Itself, But How Far?
Zulfikar_Ramzan · x · 2026-09-15
Zulfikar Ramzan's essay carefully unpacks recursive self-improvement (RSI): its origins, the classic intelligence-explosion argument, what current systems can already do, what conditions would be needed for RSI to accelerate dramatically, and what might prevent that acceleration. His framing: AI improving itself is no longer the hard question — how far it can go is.
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