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Ben Goertzel - Why Decentralization is the Path to AGI

Aug 18, 2026 · 54m

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About this episode

In this episode of Humans of AI, I chat with Ben Goertzel, AI researcher, mathematician, and one of the pioneers of artificial general intelligence, having coined the term back in 2005. Ben is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET and he has spent decades exploring intelligence, consciousness, and what it might mean to create machines with increasingly general minds. He is now also the founder of BGI Labs aiming to chart a path toward building Beneficial General Intelligence.Ben says the next breakthrough in AGI may not come from bigger transformers at all. Rather, the real bottleneck is deeper: memory, continual learning, metacognition, and architectures that can actually keep improving…