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Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space

Jack Clark · 12 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    The relationship between AI and space may become a matter of extraordinary practical relevance sooner than people think.

    Their wordsI suspect space is going to go from a broadly academic topic of study (when it comes to AI and its relationship thereto) to one of extraordinary practical relevance sooner than we think.

  2. Our reading

    Full recursive self-improvement in AI is more likely to become possible in 2027 than in 2028.

    Their wordsI now think it's more likely we'll see full RSI become possible in 2027, whereas before I thought it was more likely in 2028.

  3. Our reading

    Technologists undervalue the arts as a way to think more coherently and carefully about the effects of technology on the world.

    Their wordsGenerally, I think technologists criminally underrate the value of the arts as a means by which to think more coherently and carefully about the effects of tech on the world.

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