{"slug": "rsi-is-not-happening-r", "title": "RSI is not happening [R]", "summary": "A new paper argues that recursive self-improvement (RSI) is not on the horizon because current AI agents cannot conduct open-ended machine learning research. The study tested agents on accepted but unpublished NeurIPS papers, finding they could not complete the open-ended research tasks. The finding matters because RSI is a central concern in AI safety and capability forecasting.", "body_md": "A new paper (I'm not a coauthor BTW -- I just found it interesting) argues, basically, that RSI is not on the horizon, because current (at the time the study was done) agents cannot do open-ended ML research. Specifically, they took some accepted, but unpublished papers from NeurIPS, and tried to ge", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rsi-is-not-happening-r", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/119697/", "published_at": "2026-09-14 21:00:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 22:59:07.458274+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-research", "ai-safety", "machine-learning", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["NeurIPS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rsi-is-not-happening-r", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rsi-is-not-happening-r.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rsi-is-not-happening-r.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rsi-is-not-happening-r.jsonld"}}