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Basic AI Drives Part 2: Which Minds Will Emerge Beneficial “Basic AI Drives” as they Become Superintelligent?
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
A Lecture to the Makers, Delivered Late (and Perhaps Retrocausally)
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
The Geopolitics of the Great AI Bet
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
From AI to AGI: Be Part of the Next Technology Frontier
Community Oct 8, 2026

From AI to AGI: Be Part of the Next Technology Frontier

Edge City India 2026 brings together frontier AI, decentralized technologies, and collaborative experimentation, exploring how emerging systems might shape the next generation of technological innovation.
Mihaela Ulieru 3 min read
How We Could Actually Get a Near-Term (Beneficial) Intelligence Explosion
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
Basic AI Drives Revisited, Part 1
Article Oct 13, 2026

Basic AI Drives Revisited, Part 1

Which Minds Have Omohundro’s “Basic AI Drives”?
Ben Goertzel 61 min read
The Plight of the Centibillionaires
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
Sovereign and Social AI
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
The Mesh of Minds: Decentralizing the Future of AI
Community Apr 1, 2026

The Mesh of Minds: Decentralizing the Future of AI

What if thousands of everyday laptops formed a global AI brain? OpenClaw shatters centralized AI monopolies with a decentralized, private, people-powered intelligence mesh.

Tsion Teklay 3 min read
Big Tech’s Big Bets on the Singularity
Article Aug 24, 2026

Big Tech’s Big Bets on the Singularity

In Ben's word, this is "An attempt to comprehend the unfolding economics of the great AI bet, with and without decentralized AGI".

Ben Goertzel 28 min read