Jacob Coxon: RSI next year or the year after is a real possibility

‘There is a very real possibility that in the immediate future … recursive self-improvement will happen’

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COXON: "Exactly. I completely agree. It's right now there's no risk of extinction. The current models, the worst they can do is maybe hack into something, potentially cause a lot of damages in, in infrastructure, but there's no... They're not intelligent enough to outsmart us at a level that would lead to, to extinction. I think what's just crazy is to look at the, the rate of progress, and there is a very real possibility that in the immediate future, these years that like next year, the year after, recursive self-improvement will happen, and we'll enter the phase of Evan's post where he argues that there's a chance we could all die. Like that, that is coming soon."

Source: CNN · Sep 12, 2026 · 37s clip