Ben Goertzel Bets on 'Decentralized AGI': The Cryptocurrency Path to Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic

June 21: Ben Goertzel, Chairman of the AGI Society and Chief Scientist for Sophia the Robot, stated that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is "too important to be controlled by venture capital or a small number of tech companies," and advocated building an open, decentralized AGI system via a blockchain network to replace the closed model path taken by OpenAI and Anthropic. Goertzel is advancing this initiative through his project SingularityNET and the "Artificial General Intelligence Alliance." The system operates on an encrypted network and aims to make AI capabilities collectively owned and maintained by users worldwide. He emphasized that open-source code alone is insufficient; AGI must run on a distributed infrastructure to avoid being controlled by a handful of computing power giants. He proposed the "AI Agent Economy" concept, where users can deploy multiple AI agents to collaborate on tasks and process transactions. The future system will offer paid AI services while maintaining a decentralized backend architecture, with the blockchain’s underlying framework hidden from end users. Goertzel expects AGI to emerge between 2027 and 2030 and warned that if technological development remains concentrated in a small number of countries or companies, it could exacerbate global inequality. He noted that his first AI agent product, Omega Claw, will be released soon. ------------------------------------------------ Click the original article link below to join the Thinkium Beating · Feishu AI News Channel, which monitors global AI hotspots and news 24/7.