We are pretty far from the end state of RSI
24 October 2026 (bigtechnology.com). Google CEO Sundar Pichai, on the Big Technology Podcast in October 2026, pushed back on claims that recursive self-improvement is imminent.
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Who else?
What it refers to: Recursive self-improvement refers to AI systems autonomously upgrading themselves without human involvement, which some in the industry say is imminent.
Other voices
- “We have built a machine that builds new models” Alexandr Wang, Builder,
- “It could kill us all by the end of the decade” Jacob Coxon, Researcher,
- “The probability of catastrophe is higher, and the probability of dystopia is very high” Gary Marcus, Researcher,
- “A dangerous myth” Yoshua Bengio, Researcher,
- “If they believe that, they really ought to stop working on it” Jensen Huang, Builder,










