Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

1004: Recursive Self-Improvement

📅 June 26, 2026 ⏱️ 10m

Could an AI get good enough at AI research to build its own, more capable successor and kick off a compounding loop? That’s recursive self-improvement (RSI) and it surged into the conversation after Anthropic revealed that, as of May 2026, Claude wrote more than 80% of the code merged into its produ