Jack Clark defends OpenAI's RSI measurement research as the '26%' figure spreads
jackclarkSF · x · 2026-09-18
Reacting to community discussion of a research effort measuring recursive self-improvement (RSI) — with one commenter noting the headline '26%' number is bound to get heavy airtime — Jack Clark said the project was one he helped supervise as a follow-on to 'When AI Builds Itself'. The goal, he said, is to put more information and methodology for measuring RSI into the world, while acknowledging that the definitional aspects of RSI are very complicated. It signals that frontier labs are actively building quantitative frameworks for self-improvement capability.
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