# Self-improving AI Could Bootstrap Beyond Imaginable Intelligence by Aubrey de Grey
> “Artificial intelligence researchers will, numerous experts attest, probably build systems that are "recursively self-improving"—that understand their own workings well enough to design improvements to themselves, thereby bootstrapping to a state of ever more unimaginable intellectual performance.”
> **— Aubrey de Grey**, *2009, Edge Annual Question, “What Will Change Everything?”*
## Sources and Context
- **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [THE UNMASKING OF TRUE HUMAN NATURE](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10447) — Edge published this exact passage in its 2009 Annual Question collection, *WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?*. The response page preserves the surrounding argument and qualifications.
- **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the complete response cohort and this passage's promotion status.
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“Artificial intelligence researchers will, numerous experts attest, probably build systems that are "recursively self-improving"—that understand their own workings well enough to design improvements to themselves, thereby bootstrapping to a state of ever more unimaginable intellectual performance.”
— Aubrey de Grey, 2009, Edge Annual Question, “What Will Change Everything?”
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