Socher: Existing AI plus more compute can cure diseases and aging
Richard Socher · When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive) · Sep 10, 2026 · at 16:06
Recursive CEO Richard Socher argues that current AI architectures, scaled with data and compute, are sufficient to solve major scientific and medical challenges.
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“With existing technology and giving it more data and more compute, we can already cure a lot of diseases. We can already cure many of the aspects of aging. We can already build better fusion like reactors and systems. We can already create new materials.”
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