# Research Acceleration - The View Inside OpenAI **Entity class:** Publication / artificial-intelligence report **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / governance / public knowledge **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition *Research Acceleration: The View Inside OpenAI* is a September 2026 OpenAI publication reporting how coding agents are changing research work and describing OpenAI's path from an automated research intern toward an automated AI researcher. ## Relationships [[wiki/OpenAI|OpenAI]] · [[wiki/Research Acceleration|Research Acceleration]] · [[wiki/Automated AI Researcher|Automated AI Researcher]] · [[wiki/AI Research Automation|AI Research Automation]] - **Source dossier:** [[research/Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff - Ezra Klein on Recursive Self-Improvement|Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff?]] ## Sources and provenance - [Source or authoritative context](https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai/) — accessed for the October 2026 integration. - [[research/Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff - Ezra Klein on Recursive Self-Improvement|Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff?]] — reconciled episode conversion and quotation inventory. ## Evidence boundary Time-sensitive roles, forecasts, model capabilities and incident details remain attributed to the dated sources above. This node records the relationship established by the source corpus and does not convert a forecast or reported event into an independently proven fact. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “We do not yet know how to safely get all the way to aligned full recursive self-improvement.” > **— OpenAI**, *Research acceleration report, 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/OpenAI Does Not Know How to Reach Aligned Recursive Self-Improvement by OpenAI|OpenAI Does Not Know How to Reach Aligned Recursive Self-Improvement by OpenAI]]