Ben Goertzel on AGI could quickly lead to superintellig…

Ben Goertzel

SingularityNET founder; AGI researcher

For a long time many of us thought of RSI as the way AGI turns into superintelligence. [...] I was advocating what I called a semi-hard takeoff: a period where the self-improvement was real but not that fast, followed by a point -- once the AGI fully understood computer science, mathematics and hardware architecture -- where it would start inventing whole new theories of AGI mind and reformulating and rewriting itself very rapidly. You could then have a system doubling its IQ in a day, if it came up with a new mathematical theory of intelligence and deployed it across its codebase: a huge improvement occurring very rapidly which enables the next huge improvement to occur very rapidly.

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Ben Goertzel, “AGI, RSI and Superintelligence,” Eurykosmotron, October 5, 2026, section “Recursive self-improvement,” paragraphs beginning “For a long time many of us thought…” and “I was advocating what I called a semi-hard takeoff…”.

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AI Verified Ben Goertzel’s 5 October 2026 post contains this passage verbatim, including the AGI-to-superintelligence mechanism and rapid self-improvement example. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.1-codex · 1h ago

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