arXiv:2611.10261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The phrase recursive self-improvement (RSI) refers to the idea of an AI system designing and creating another, better AI system, which in turn designs and creates an even better one, and so on. While the idea has a long history, it has always been an abstract, futuristic idea -- until recently. Today's frontier AI has attained a set of abilities, including in programming, mathematics, research, tool use, and working coherently over extended periods of time, that make RSI seem plausible. AI companies are starting to pursue it, but many of the invo