51 AI Insiders Vote on Who Best Understands Recursive Self-Improvement
eliebakouch · x · 2026-11-03
Chris Barber asked 51 AI practitioners who has the best read on recursive self-improvement (RSI). Top picks: Jerry Tworek (Core Automation, 5 votes), Jun Park (Hillclimb, 4), then John Schulman (Thinking Machines), Rohan Anil, Daniel Chang, Laksh Aithani, and Richard Socher with 3 each; Andrej Karpathy and Paul Christiano among those with 2. Prime Intellect researcher Elie Bakouch noted he made the list alongside Ilya Sutskever (SSI).
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