NYT covers recursive self-improvement; Schmidhuber's ex-PhD student builds RSI startup Inherent
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-17
Schmidhuber highlights a New York Times piece on recursive self-improvement (RSI) featuring his former PhD student Louis Kirsch and his new RSI-focused company, Inherent Labs. In a reply, Inherent explains the founding thesis: using AI for R&D requires new infrastructure and workflows that enhance human control. They are building human-machine teaming tools for monitoring and oversight as models grow more capable, enabling RSI at the organizational level — a virtuous cycle that raises collective human-machine intelligence. They argue this is a better and safer trajectory than model-only RSI, with details on safety practices to come.
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