Rohit Krishnan pushes back on ASI doom: recursive self-improvement is an extraordinary assumption
herbiebradley · x · 2026-09-21
Investor Rohit Krishnan lays out a four-point critique of the ASI narrative: ASI is underspecified, the path to it is underspecified, and reactions from product builders and society at large aren't factored into what actually gets built. Iterative deployment is therefore the rule — and it's also how AI gets aligned. The only argument for ASI doom, he argues, is that RSI produces a godlike ASI too fast for humanity to react, which he calls an extraordinary assumption.
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