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Richard Socher says the EU regulated certain AI capabilities to protect people from technology that could carry a small chance of causing everyone’s death.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sept 2026
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“we're good. We want to want people to thrive. Let's not have technology that could have a small chance of all of us dying.”
“And so they regulated exactly those kinds of things in the EU.”Play from 7:18Report a misattribution
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