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The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement Tom Cunningham* Lukas Althoff† Basil Halperin† Brian Jabarian† Andrew Koh† Arjun Ramani† Phil Trammell† Parker Whitfill† Cheryl Wu† July 13, 2026 Abstract We model the economics of recursive self-improvement (RSI) and assess its plausibility and impacts. First, we build a sequence of increasingly rich mod- els of AI progress to…

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