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Article Oct 7, 2026

A Lecture to the Makers, Delivered Late (and Perhaps Retrocausally)

In a fictional letter from beyond the Singularity, a superintelligent AI warns that humanity’s future may depend less on controlling new minds than on teaching them compassion.

Ben Goertzel 19 min read

Article Oct 20, 2026

Basic AI Drives Part 2: Which Minds Will Emerge Beneficial “Basic AI Drives” as they Become Superintelligent?

TL;DR -- the ones designed to have beneficial and self-stabilizing goal-systems from the get-go...

Ben Goertzel 69 min read

Article Aug 24, 2026

The Geopolitics of the Great AI Bet

What Big Tech’s Big Bets on the Singularity Imply for National and Global Politics.

Ben Goertzel 22 min read

Article Oct 6, 2026

How We Could Actually Get a Near-Term (Beneficial) Intelligence Explosion

Could self-improving AI hives trigger an intelligence explosion? Ben Goertzel argues OmegaHives could overcome language models’ bottlenecks, with measurable tests to determine whether faster progress is achievable.

Ben Goertzel 42 min read

Article Aug 27, 2026

Toward a Truly Decentralized Digital Provenance Layer

Ben Goertzel proposes OpenWater, an open framework for media provenance that avoids centralized "Ministries of Truth" by using watermarks and signed claims.

Ben Goertzel 14 min read

Article Oct 13, 2026

Basic AI Drives Revisited, Part 1

Which Minds Have Omohundro’s “Basic AI Drives”?

Ben Goertzel 61 min read

Article Sep 24, 2026

The Plight of the Centibillionaires

Buying super-yachts and accelerating tech deployment get old, in the end there’s nothing fun left to do with all that wealth but capture the global commons.

Ben Goertzel 36 min read

Community Apr 14, 2026

The Rise of Decentralized Media: Why Community-Driven Platforms Are the Future

Tired of gatekept media? Decentralized platforms like Mindplex are shifting power to creators and audiences through blockchain, AI, and community governance.

Nishtha Gupta 3 min read

Article Oct 5, 2025

The web is for everyone and must remain so: Tim Berners-Lee

"This Is for Everyone," by Tim Berners-Lee, traces the origins, evolution, and potential future of the web, ending with a call for action to reclaim the web.

Giulio Prisco 5 min read

Community Dec 4, 2025

Sovereign and Social AI

Artificial intelligence has ceased to be a technological race and become a battle for control. What is at stake: who controls data, who writes the rules, who captures value.

Eduardo Martínez de la Fe 2 min read