What Richard Socher has said about Project Meridian
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 3, 2026
Richard Socher, AI researcher, founder of You.com and co-founder and CEO of Recursive, author of The Eureka Machine, has been quoted on Project Meridian once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Socher says lethal decisions should require human oversight and giving AI access to nuclear weapons would be a poor decision.
“the more we get to deciding not just to impact human lives, but to end human lives, the more we should have human oversight”
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Episodes
Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 h 27 min
Peter Diamandis and his co-hosts interview Richard Socher about Recursive's self-improving AI, ASI timelines, AI doomerism, new frontier models, and the Pentagon's Project Meridian.
Others on Project Meridian
- Salim Ismail · 1 quote
Richard Socher on other topics
- The Eureka Machine · 2 quotes
- Attention economy · 1 quote
- Anthropic · 1 quote
- Human Control Over AI Act · 1 quote
- AI existential risk · 1 quote
- Artificial superintelligence · 1 quote
- Recursive self-improvement · 1 quote
- Virtual cell models · 1 quote