RYAN GREENBLATT – WHAT HAPPENS ONCE AI CAN AUTOMATE AI RESEARCH? (2 HOUR READ)

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This post contains a transcript of an interview with Ryan Greenblatt, the chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he focuses on technical AI safety and security work. The interview covers the topic of recursive self-improvement (RSI), one of the most debated in the world of AI right now. One possible outcome of achieving RSI is that the world quickly slingshots towards having tens of billions of superintelligences, each of which is dramatically more competent than human experts across all fields. Greenblatt believes this scenario is possible, and he predicts that humans will automate AI R&D by 2031.