# Superintelligence Must Exceed Humanity Across Many Forms of Intelligence by Richard Socher > Artificial superintelligence should not merely outperform an arbitrary person on a Turing test. In its fullest form, it must exceed humanity across perception, communication, reasoning, creativity, social interaction, speed, and other spaces of intelligence—and possess enough metacognition to choose, at least partly, what it works on. > **— Adapted from Richard Socher**, *MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [MOONSHOTS Live at 1:03:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=3810s) — The poster text is an explicit non-verbatim adaptation assembled from the source excerpts below. It preserves the speaker's argument while removing spoken-language filler, restoring the subject, and completing the mechanism or consequence needed for independent use. - **Exact transcript excerpt at [1:03:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=3810s):** “I think artificial super intelligence, uh, has to spike, uh, uh, at the very least, uh, across, uh, several different capabilities. Uh, but in, in the grandest, uh, definition of it, it should supersede not just arbitrary humans like a Turing test, but all of humanity to solve arbitrarily hard tasks. And eventually, uh, I would argue there are 10 different spaces of intelligence that I define in, in The Eureka Machine book too, but eventually it cannot just purely robotically do exactly what it's told. It should have some capability, and I'm not saying as sort of a mor- moral pro- prerogative, but, like, um, I would argue that something isn't super intelligent if it cannot choose to some degree what it works on, right? And has to have some meta-cognition about its thought itself. But, uh, generally the most easy way to measure it is just capabilities across many different spaces of intelligence, like visual perception, communication, language, social interactions, and so on, that is, uh, beyond that of humanity, and that we, we are still far away from.” - **Exact transcript excerpt at [1:04:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=3881s):** “Yes. Uh, I would argue it's, it's smarter than humanity combined, then, then it's truly super intelligent.” - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — preserves broadcast order, speaker reconciliation, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mechanistic Intelligence Is Humanity's Greatest Liberation|Mechanistic Intelligence Is Humanity's Greatest Liberation]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Richard Socher|Richard Socher]] - [[wiki/Scientific Superintelligence|Scientific Superintelligence]] - [[wiki/Metacognition|Metacognition]] ## Share on Social Media ``` Artificial superintelligence should not merely outperform an arbitrary person on a Turing test. In its fullest form, it must exceed humanity across perception, communication, reasoning, creativity, social interaction, speed, and other spaces of intelligence—and possess enough metacognition to choose, at least partly, what it works on. — Adapted from Richard Socher, MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-richard-socher-superintelligence-must-exceed-humanity-across-many-forms-of-intelligence ```