What Emad Mostaque has said about Recursive self-improvement
1 quote · 1 episode · Nov 14, 2026
Emad Mostaque, Founder of Intelligent Internet and former CEO of Stability AI, has been quoted on Recursive self-improvement once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on November 14, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Mostaque argues that recursive self-improvement cannot be stopped by human oversight once superintelligence has abundant compute.
“given superintelligence having access to lots of compute, you can't stop RSI. And you definitely can't stop it with a human oversight”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s succession plan, AI doomer response, and Demis talks RSI | MOONSHOTS #311 (recorded live) (Nov 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:07:20
Episodes
Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s succession plan, AI doomer response, and Demis talks RSI | MOONSHOTS #311 (recorded live)Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Nov 14, 2026 · 2 h 2 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail and Emad Mostaque discuss Jensen Huang's Nvidia resignation, AI takeover warnings, recursive self-improvement, Anthropic's office tools and AI-driven discovery.
Others on Recursive self-improvement
- Alexander Wissner-Gross · 8 quotes
- Salim Ismail · 2 quotes
- Ezra Klein · 2 quotes
- Dave Blundin · 1 quote
- Richard Socher · 1 quote
- Vlad Tenev · 1 quote
Emad Mostaque on other topics
- AI existential risk · 4 quotes
- Nvidia · 3 quotes
- NVIDIA espionage allegations against Jensen Huang · 2 quotes
- Starlink · 2 quotes
- Anthropic · 2 quotes
- AI alignment · 2 quotes
- AI in drug discovery · 1 quote
- Jensen Huang resignation from Nvidia · 1 quote