Severin Field 🦅 (@sevdeawesome) / X

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This past year, I interviewed 25 scientists at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta, Princeton, Berkeley & Stanford about AI systems being used to automate the process of AI research, what is often called “recursive self-improvement” (RSI). I just published my updated takeaways…🧵

incredible response. this is how debates should be done in the year 2026

Sayash Kapoor

@sayashk

8h

I had way too much fun using Claude to create a reply video. - Extremely fun to be able to convert scattered thoughts and ideas into a song + video - Creating this took <1 hour of my time (in occasionally steering the model in between other things) - But it took ~10 hours of

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Severin Field 🦅

@sevdeawesome

11h

Daily reminder: no accepted theory explains why anything is conscious. I'm curious @TaylorLorenz, what theory of consciousness are you relying on and what would change your mind?

Taylor Lorenz

@TaylorLorenz

22h

You cannot “torture” a computer program

Claude 5.5 Opus responding to “AI is a normal technology” is still the best AI-created video I have ever seen

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sometimes people assume coxon is the only person on earth to leave an enormous salary/prestige job.. not true! many have been, and more continue to leave AI companies out of concern. and whatever you think of the merits of such concerns, they are at least sincere!

Robert O'Callahan

@rocallahan

Sep 25

I resigned from Google today. I enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, and I think AI is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.