What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about Sparks of Weight Space Programming

2 quotes · 1 episode · Nov 4, 2026

Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Sparks of Weight Space Programming 2 times in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on November 4, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Wissner-Gross argues the MIT result shows machines will be able to interpret other machines, undermining fears of losing interpretability.
“the machines will understand the machines the machines and the superintelligences will defensively co-scale with each other”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Big Tech’s $3T AI Bet, Claude Writes 90% of Anthropic’s Code, AIs Editing AI Brains | EP #308 (Nov 4, 2026) · Listen from 1:03:08
Wissner-Gross is over 90% confident frontier labs are already experimenting with self-editing models.
“there's no way the frontier labs aren't already preparing and playing with self-editing models”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Big Tech’s $3T AI Bet, Claude Writes 90% of Anthropic’s Code, AIs Editing AI Brains | EP #308 (Nov 4, 2026) · Listen from 1:08:47

Big Tech’s $3T AI Bet, Claude Writes 90% of Anthropic’s Code, AIs Editing AI Brains | EP #308
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Nov 4, 2026 · 1 h 55 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Dave Blundin and Salim Ismail discuss Big Tech's $3 trillion AI build-out, new AI benchmarks, Anthropic's recursive self-improvement, AI weight editing, antimatter, and Artemis.