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Oct 6, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Hinton's First RSI Paper: AI Automating R&D May Trigger Intelligence Explosion

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and 21 co-authors publish the first paper on recursive self-improvement (RSI), warning that AI automating its own research could accelerate progress tenfold within 1.5 years, citing current automation metrics, historical research ROI estimates, and the Hugging Face incident as evidence, urging immediate policy action.