Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 24 year old who wrote a 165 page AGI manifesto, got it right on the money, and turned it into…
Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-04-30
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- Aschenbrenner wrote a 165-page AGI manifesto and subsequently built a $5.5 billion hedge fund around its thesis.
- He identifies whether AI can automate AI research as the single most important milestone in AI development.
- AI-automated AI research is framed as the decisive threshold that would trigger recursive self-acceleration toward AGI.
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Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 24 year old who wrote a 165 page AGI manifesto, got it right on the money, and turned it into a $5.5 billion hedge fund.
He's identifying the single most important milestone to watch for in all of AI.
The question is can AI automate AI research.