NYT covers recursive self-improvement; Schmidhuber's ex-student founds Inherent Labs
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-17
Jürgen Schmidhuber highlighted that the New York Times recently covered recursive self-improvement (RSI), featuring his former PhD student Louis Kirsch and his new company Inherent Labs.
- Schmidhuber notes he published the first concrete RSI algorithms in 1987, when compute was 100,000,000x more expensive, plus self-modifying-policy RSI since 1994; he argues cheap compute is now making RSI drive both software and physical AI
- Inherent Labs says it was founded on the belief that AI for R&D requires new infrastructure and workflows that enhance human control, building human-machine teaming tools for monitoring and oversight
- They advocate "organizational-level RSI" — a virtuous cycle raising the collective intelligence of humans and machines — calling it a better and safer trajectory than model-only RSI, with safety details to come
Related event: Schmidhuber Claims Priority: First Concrete RSI Algorithm Dates to 1987(10 posts)→
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