# Machine Intelligence Is Entering Its Own Development Process by Jakub Pachocki > “Machine intelligence playing a larger and larger role in its own development process is a natural conclusion of sustained technological progress. If AI progress continues, machine recursive self-improvement (RSI) will be at the very core of future scientific discovery.” > **— Jakub Pachocki**, *“An Alien Mind,” September 6, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Primary source:** [Jakub Pachocki, “An Alien Mind,” OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/) — verifies the wording, attribution and immediate source setting. - **Interpretive context:** Pachocki defines the mechanism rather than merely announcing acceleration: machine intelligence increasingly becomes an input to the development of subsequent machine intelligence. The second sentence is retained because it names the proposed scientific role of recursive self-improvement and completes the first sentence’s consequence. - **Editorial treatment:** The two consecutive source sentences are reproduced exactly apart from typographic quotation styling. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Recursive Self-Improvement|Recursive Self-Improvement]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Jakub Pachocki|Jakub Pachocki]] - [[wiki/Recursive Self-Improvement|Recursive Self-Improvement]] - [[wiki/Automated AI Researcher|Automated AI Researcher]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Machine intelligence playing a larger and larger role in its own development process is a natural conclusion of sustained technological progress. If AI progress continues, machine recursive self-improvement (RSI) will be at the very core of future scientific discovery.” — Jakub Pachocki, “An Alien Mind,” September 6, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jakub-pachocki-machine-intelligence-development-process ```