What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about Recursive self-improvement

1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 19, 2026

Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Recursive self-improvement once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on September 19, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

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Prediction · due Sep 2027
Wissner-Gross extrapolates Anthropic's data to predict AI fully leading its own R&D within three to twelve months.
“you find that approximately in the next three to 12 months, depending on uncertainty, AI is just completely leading all of its own R&D”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292 (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 1:51:04

Prediction · due Sep 2027
Wissner-Gross extrapolates Anthropic's data to predict AI fully leading its own R&D within three to twelve months.
“you find that approximately in the next three to 12 months, depending on uncertainty, AI is just completely leading all of its own R&D”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292 (Sep 19, 2026) · Listen from 1:51:04 · Recursive self-improvement

Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 19, 2026 · 2 h 7 min
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev joins Peter Diamandis, Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross to discuss AI liability, tokenization, Trump Accounts, agentic trading, humanoid robots and recursive self-improvement.