Sam Altman says AI is entering the RSI era: how smart should a system be allowed to be?
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-11-04
Sam Altman posed the question of how smart an AI system should be allowed to be relative to a person, and how quickly that can improve, framing it as entering the RSI (recursive self-improvement) era — a notable public endorsement of self-accelerating AI progress from OpenAI's CEO.
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