# The Strongest Form of ASI May Still Take Decades by Richard Socher > AI will become superhuman in individual domains much sooner, but the strongest form of artificial superintelligence—better than all humanity combined across perception, communication, creativity, reasoning, social intelligence, speed, knowledge, and metacognition—may still take several decades. > **— Adapted from Richard Socher**, *MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [MOONSHOTS Live at 1:06:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=3998s) — 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 [1:06:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=3998s):** “I think in the strongest sense, uh, the absolute strongest sense where, uh, indeed, uh, like Salim, uh, mentioned, there is, uh, there are 10 spaces that I define in my book of intelligence, perceptual intelligence, communication intelligence, uh, so like, uh, interaction, uh, sociological intelligence, creative intelligence, the speed at which you can do things, uh, metacognition, and, and so on, uh, knowledge, um, reasoning, mathematical reasoning, and so on. So there are 10 of these spaces, uh, and to be better than all of humanity combined, I think will take us Probably several decades. Um, I think-” - **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 ``` AI will become superhuman in individual domains much sooner, but the strongest form of artificial superintelligence—better than all humanity combined across perception, communication, creativity, reasoning, social intelligence, speed, knowledge, and metacognition—may still take several decades. — Adapted from Richard Socher, MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-richard-socher-the-strongest-form-of-asi-may-still-take-decades ```