Bay Area Frontier Research Club #25 | Recursive Self-Improvement (dinner + paper discussion @ The Residency)

About this event

Recursive self-improvement as an empirical research program.

The claim under examination is narrow: systems that improve the process by which they themselves improve — not merely agents that retry within a task, and not merely human-supervised iteration at higher throughput. That distinction matters, because most of what is currently labeled RSI sits somewhere between those two.

This session treats the problem as a stack with separable research questions: the models and methods that generate improvement, the feedback and evaluation that verify the improvement is real, and the infrastructure that lets the loop run without a human in the middle.

Talks stay short. Discussion is the point. Papers and materials are circulated in advance. Speakers are researchers operating inside these loops; the room is expected to press on assumptions, measurement, and what would count as decisive evidence.

Co-hosted with Inventors Residency of San Francisco.

The Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous, technical discussion at the frontier of AI. We convene researchers from the frontier labs, Stanford, Berkeley, and the teams building in production to examine concrete work — papers, methods, and results — with a bias toward assumptions, evaluation methodology, failure modes and convincing evidence.

Presentations are intentionally brief so the majority of time is reserved for qu...

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