# Richard Socher

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Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Richard Socher (Co-founder & CEO, Recursive) talking, from an interview on MTS published Oct 26, 2026.

- Role: Co-founder & CEO, Recursive
- About: Pioneered neural networks in NLP, invented widely used word and contextual vectors, and leads Recursive's self-improving AI.
- Company: [Recursive](https://realalpha.app/companies/#recursive)

## What Richard Socher said

- [Open-ended search can find ideas direct optimization misses](https://realalpha.app/s/open-ended-search-can-find-ideas-direct-optimization-misses/)
  MTS · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 min
  > “And once it figured out how to do the attack, you then inoculate it, and then you ask it again.” — Richard Socher · [8:13](https://realalpha.app/v/eCuVMIQUrPQ/?t=493)
- [Banning self-improvement would require invasive surveillance](https://realalpha.app/s/banning-self-improvement-would-require-invasive-surveillance/)
  MTS · Oct 26, 2026 · 4 min
  > “I think it absolutely makes sense to regulate applications of intelligence, but not intelligence itself.” — Richard Socher · [14:04](https://realalpha.app/v/eCuVMIQUrPQ/?t=844)
- [AI researchers helped build Recursive's first coding model](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-researchers-helped-build-recursives-first-coding-model/)
  MTS · Oct 26, 2026 · 5 min
  > “you have a community of AI scientists that essentially ideate, implement and validate ideas in an open ended fashion.” — Richard Socher · [1:43](https://realalpha.app/v/eCuVMIQUrPQ/?t=103)
- [A rejected NLP paper anticipated prompted language models](https://realalpha.app/s/a-rejected-nlp-paper-anticipated-prompted-language-models/)
  MTS · Oct 26, 2026 · 4 min
  > “the reviewers thought it was a ridiculously terrible idea to try to unify every single task of NLP” — Richard Socher · [18:21](https://realalpha.app/v/eCuVMIQUrPQ/?t=1101)

## The episode

- [Only AI Can Build the Next AI | Richard Socher](https://realalpha.app/v/eCuVMIQUrPQ/) · MTS · Oct 26, 2026