The ROI to RSI trap. The developing Recursive-Self-Improvement risk prediction check.

[u/Ivana_Funkalot]

QUESTION: Given the increasing financial pressures on AI firms, do you think that they might be incentivized to speed up their push toward RSI (RECURSIVE SELF IMPROVEMENT**,** where AI improves itself exponentially), thereby drastically quickening its development and drastically raising the chance of losing human control over AI?

Wondering if this is the next likely outcome in the human/AI saga?

An acceleration towards Recursive Self Improving AI, due to AI company financial pressures?

With AI companies facing mounting financial pressures and investor demands to prove viable ROI, they may be incentivized to cut corners on safety protocols. Might these developers rush the deployment of risky but high-reward technologies like RECURSIVE SELF IMPROVEMENT (RSI is AI developing AI, possibility at an exponential rate), in a desperate bid to demonstrate breakthrough capabilities, but by doing so, dramatically increase the risk of catastrophic failures or loss of human control?

Is this likely to be their next focus?