UW, Berkeley, MIT and more launch OpenRSI-Index, an academic initiative on recursive self-improvement
LukeZettlemoyer · x · 2026-09-24
OpenRSI-Index has been initiated with partners across UW, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, and more.
Advisors include Dawnsong (Song Dawn), Yejin Choi, Hanna Hajishirzi, Pang Wei Koh, Diyi Yang, Wenhu Chen, and other prominent researchers, with a large cross-institution team. RSI here refers to recursive self-improvement, suggesting a tracking/evaluation effort around AI's self-improvement capabilities; further details are expected.
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