Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
What's happening
Anthropic says it is very close to RSI capability, meaning AI could soon train or 'self-build' future AI models and cause a rapid jump in progress. An independent assessment flagged AI R&D acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026. METR's Ryan Greenblatt estimates AI is already speeding up AI by roughly 2x to 4.5x, calling this a major update toward artificial superintelligence within 1-2 years and saying his prior timing was too slow.
Why it's trending
Multiple reports and an independent assessment are converging on evidence that AI-driven R&D automation is happening now, accelerating timelines.
SignalHolding at its usual pace, confirmed across 3 independent source types.
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If Anthropic is 'very close' to RSI, the right move is not panic, it's hard engineering and redundancy planning now, not wishful waiting for regulation to catch up.
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- METR's Ryan Greenblatt estimates AI is now speeding up AI by 4.5x. This is 5 months earlier than even AI 2027 predicted. "I was seriously wrong about RSI speed up ... This is a big update towards ASI within 1-2 years."
Ryan Greenblatt tweet: This report on AI R&D automation (RSI) is a big update towards ASI within 1-2 years. It says AI progress is sped up by RSI right now by around 2x. In AI 2027, this happens around March 2027. I was seriously wrong about RSI speed up; I previously expected much less in 2026 (around 1.15x-1.3x). It seems as though there was specific privately available evidence that would h
r/OpenAINov 6 - Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026HackerNewsNov 5
- Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
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