Hinton, Bengio and 20+ researchers warn AI-run AI R&D could trigger intelligence explosion
tinyfool · x · 2026-10-03
A September paper from Cambridge's CASP, co-signed by 20+ leading researchers including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Barto, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Anthropic's Jack Clark and Microsoft's Eric Horvitz, argues AI is automating AI R&D itself and an "intelligence explosion" may be near.
- Anthropic data cited: AI-written share of approved code rose from single digits to 80%+ (Jan 2025–May 2026); AI-independent R&D under high-level human oversight grew from 1% to 26% (Mar–Aug 2026).
- The paper defines the explosion as AI-driven AI progress compressing years of gains into months — a qualitative shift from steady recent progress.
- Commenter tinyfool adds that this will further boost compute demand — good news for Nvidia.
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