Richard Socher on AI alignment is solvable

Richard Socher

AI researcher; founder and CEO of Recursive Superintelligence; founder of You.com; former Chief Scientist at Salesforce

If we can't align on these questions among humans, how do we encode them for AI systems that might work on recommendations to optimize across several human civilizations?

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Richard Socher, “Before superintelligent AI can solve major challenges, we need to define what ‘solved’ means,” World Economic Forum, January 13, 2026.

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Build artificial general intelligence

Our main focus is to build truly recursive, self-improving superintelligence at scale, which means that the entire process of ideation, implementation, and validation of research ideas would be automatic.

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