Top AI researchers warn of intelligence explosion from self-improving systems

Researchers including OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz and Meta’s Dawn Song published a paper warning that automating AI R&D could trigger an intelligence explosion compressing years of progress into months. The authors, writing in a personal capacity, call for urgent policymaker oversight of self-improving systems before the window for action closes.