{"rewrite":{"id":"r_ffac46ab9d238f93f4fe1c37","clusterId":"c_9afe5ceb9a413879994c07d5","slug":"openai-chief-scientist-predicts-ai-will-drive-its-own-development","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"OpenAI Chief Scientist Predicts AI Will Drive Its Own Development","summary":"OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says AI will increasingly drive its own development, a path he calls recursive self-improvement. He traces the view to a 2023 research project and says reasoning models now produce results that push science forward. OpenAI has concentrated its research on RSI, and Pachocki warns that no one is fully prepared for the consequences of rising machine intelligence.","whyItMatters":"Pachocki's statement frames recursive self-improvement not as a distant scenario but as OpenAI's stated research direction, with the company treating it as the only way to stay at the frontier of AI research.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003ePachocki dates his conviction to mid-2023, when the RLSlow research project convinced him that reasoning model training could be scaled and that models would gain the ability to form their own thoughts. Three years on, he says reasoning models are producing results that push the limits of science, which is why he now considers machine-driven self-improvement likely.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpenAI has concentrated its research on RSI because the company sees it as the only way to remain at the frontier of AI research. Pachocki describes the current moment as one where machine intelligence is beginning to exceed human intelligence, a trend that becomes more pronounced as compute grows.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is explicit about the risk. Pachocki says no one is prepared for the consequences of rising machine intelligence, and while OpenAI works on alignment, he argues broader intervention may be needed. The weak point is alignment generalization, the area most likely to lag behind the speed of intelligence gains. His proposed path combines stronger alignment and monitoring with a coordinated slowdown when reliability demands it.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says AI will increasingly drive its own development. He dates the view to a 2023 research project and says reasoning models now push the limits of science. OpenAI has concentrated research on RSI, and he warns no one is prepared for the consequences.","twitterPost":"OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki predicts AI will increasingly drive its own development, a path he calls recursive self-improvement. He says reasoning models now push the limits of science, and warns no one is prepared for the consequences of rising machine intelligence.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says AI will increasingly drive its own development, a path he calls recursive self-improvement. He dates the view to a 2023 research project and says reasoning models now produce results that push science forward. OpenAI has concentrated its research on RSI, and Pachocki warns that no one is fully prepared for the consequences of rising machine intelligence.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GIGAZINE\",\"url\":\"https://gigazine.net/news/20260907-openai-rsi/\",\"title\":\"OpenAIの主任科学者が「今後AIは自身の開発をますます推進するようになる」と見通しを表明\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":5128,"outputTokens":4135,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1788758370,"createdAt":"2026-09-07T05:14:11.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-07T05:18:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-07T05:18:20.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_9afe5ceb9a413879994c07d5","canonicalTitle":"OpenAIの主任科学者が「今後AIは自身の開発をますます推進するようになる」と見通しを表明","representativeArticleId":"a_39925d0615ca9cd50ae61f43","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Jakub Pachocki\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"other\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-07T04:30:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-07T04:30:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-07T05:18:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"GIGAZINE","url":"https://gigazine.net/news/20260907-openai-rsi/","title":"OpenAIの主任科学者が「今後AIは自身の開発をますます推進するようになる」と見通しを表明"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Jakub Pachocki"],"type":"news","domain":"other","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}