Turing Post Publishes RSI 2026 Guide: Anthropic, Recursive, Sakana AI Show First Real Steps
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-09-18
Turing Post released a collection of guides on Recursive Self-Improvement, including an AI 101 primer, "9 Paths Toward True RSI," "The Missing Pieces in RSI," and the five-levels-of-autonomy analysis of what makes the loop recursive.
Core definition: RSI is when AI participates in improving the process that creates future AI systems — joining the research loop itself by proposing ideas, running experiments, evaluating outcomes, generating training data, and designing the next iteration. Today's RSI is mostly about automating coding, experiments, evaluation, and research workflows, not fully autonomous foundation-model building; humans shift toward setting goals, validating results, and governing the process. Anthropic, Recursive, and Sakana AI are cited as early signals of the shift.
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