AI helping improve future AI, so progress can speed itself up.
Imagine a race car changing its own engine mid-race. Each lap, it comes back faster and louder.
People use RSI when they talk about AI growing smarter faster. It can make Alignment feel like chasing a skateboard downhill.
AGI
RSI is often seen as a fast path toward AGI.
Superintelligence
If RSI keeps working, AI could move toward Superintelligence very fast.
Singularity
Many Singularity ideas rely on RSI speeding up again and again.
Alignment
Faster self-improvement makes Alignment harder to keep up with.