Mark Beale
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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You know, I I know there's this temptation that some of this sounds scary and sci fi like and unfortunately this is the world we now find ourselves in.
And the critical issue is that we don't understand what happens once they let off this process.
The companies let off this process called recursive self improvement.
This RSI as it's known is when an AI model builds the next version of itself.
And there could be some constraints and some ways that this doesn't go in in a basically an explosion, but some people are are thinking that this could be like a nuclear chain reaction, the end point of which we simply do not know.
And that is creating a lot of anxiety among the companies and the labs themselves.
And remember what you need to be really good at AI research, you need you need good research taste, you need to be really good at math, and you need to be really good at coding.
And just last week, you know, one of the open AI models cracked ten open problems in advanced mathematics and and com frontier computer science uh that had been, you know, stumping humans now for for decades.
Four of those of those problems were were considered fields metal worthy.
uh breakthroughs.
And that's why the singularity discussion is now on the table.
If an AI can do this well at math, this well at software engineering, can it can do AI research uh in a superhuman way, it's gonna be able to take control almost like digital gain of function.
So you know like in in in biology, when when researchers like increase the lethality or or or transmissibility of these viruses, that's called gain of function research.
Well in a similar way we have digital gain of function
Research going on right now with this RSI process, recursive self-improvement.
And the government's flying blind.
It has no clue uh what's going on with this.
What what I as far as I can tell, they're not talking publicly about uh their understanding of of and their assessment of these threats.
Uh and and right now the only thing we have is this private voluntary agreement where some companies are telling the government some information we don't really know yet.
Um but at the end of the day, I think this is gonna be
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