Richard Socher on Build artificial general intelligence

Richard Socher

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

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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Build artificial general intelligence

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AI Verified The quote clearly expresses support for creating highly advanced AI: the author says their 'main focus is to build' a 'self-improving superintelligence.' While it mentions superintelligence rather than AGI by name, this is a stronger, closely related goal and implies support for building AGI. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote explicitly says their "main focus is to build truly recursive, self-improving superintelligence at scale," so it clearly supports building AGI-level or stronger AI systems. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic. The exact sentence appears verbatim as Richard Socher’s response in TechCrunch’s May 14, 2026 interview “What happens when AI starts building itself?”, and the provided May 28, 2026 TechCrunch article repeats the same wording with an attribution clause inserted mid-quote (“Socher told TechCrunch at launch”), confirming the attribution to Socher. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/what-happens-when-ai-starts-building-itself/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Quote attributed to Richard Socher (founder & CEO of Recursive Superintelligence; founder of You.com) from TechCrunch's "RSI is the new AGI — and it's just as hard to pin down" (2026-05-28). The source_url (techcrunch.com) returns HTTP 403 for automated fetch, but a web search confirmed the quote verbatim: Recursive Superintelligence's "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." Year (2026) and attribution are correct (corroborated by multiple sources covering the company's $650M stealth launch with Socher as founder/CEO). The "for" vote on "AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence" aligns: Socher's stated thesis and entire venture are built on recursive self-improvement — AI that autonomously identifies its weaknesses and redesigns itself without human involvement — which is precisely the rapid-takeoff pathway from advanced AI to superintelligence. Positive evidence confirms accuracy and vote alignment. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 4mo ago

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AI alignment is solvable

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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