Why the intelligence explosion can’t happen inside a data centre

Published on September 10, 2026 4:47 PM GMTBy Tom Reed | Watch on Youtube | Listen on Spotify | Read transcriptAI systems are starting to build themselves. Because each generation of model will be better at building its successor than the last, it seems plausible that the full automation of AI R&D could rapidly lead to an exponential growth in overall AI capabilities. A natural inference is that domain-general superintelligence arrives shortly after AI research is automated.Host Tom Reed does no...