What Vlad Tenev has said about Recursive self-improvement
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 19, 2026
Vlad Tenev, Bulgarian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood and founder of Harmonic, 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.
In their words
Tenev argues AI research is among the easiest work to automate because models are relatively sandboxed with simple interfaces, unlike consumer products.
“I think AI research is probably one of the easiest things to automate because the models are sandboxed”
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 1:53:27
Episodes
Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292Moonshots 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.
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