Richard Socher

I think the best thing is for the future to have better marketing.

And if a politician wants to increase the comfort and wealth of their people, they should try to help those people understand and see the positive impacts that AI and science and research can have on their people.

But if enough people decide they just want to off-ramp from progress and just live on an island and enjoy the sun,

Most people can't do that.

But it's a decision each civilization has to kind of make for itself, I think.

Like, you know, people make conscious choices not to go into the jungle and try to tell, like, every tribe about, you know, here's an iPhone.

It's all the amazing things that you can do with it.

Just let them be.

Like, in some ways, like, you know, I love progress.

I love the Bay Area because there's so many people here who love progress and building that future.

And I hope we can kind of bring as many people along with us into this exciting progress.

But, you know, you have to ultimately...

accept people's decisions.

And if they want to say, no, we don't want to participate in that.

We want to regulate automation.

We want to regulate AI.

You know, you can't force people for their own good.

So I think safety is very important.

I think we need to, like, we care about it a lot.

We've had, like, many interesting papers that our team collectively has published.