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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
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
Self-Adapting Robotics: Pushing Computation from Cloud to Edge
Community Dec 19, 2025

Self-Adapting Robotics: Pushing Computation from Cloud to Edge

As robotics shifts intelligence from cloud to edge, self-adapting models promise faster decisions, greater autonomy, and new ethical questions about accountability in decentralized machine intelligence.

Emmanuel Kordzo AGBONYITOR 3 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
Seeding RSI Toward ASI
Article Oct 6, 2026

Seeding RSI Toward ASI

Can Our Current Proto-AGIs Help Build Their Successors?
Ben Goertzel 22 min read
How Omega Lost Its Claw
Article Oct 6, 2026

How Omega Lost Its Claw

Why we dropped the Claw from OmegaClaw (Mind over hands!!), and why this is the moment for a lot more people to start raising their own AI helpers...
Ben Goertzel 13 min read
Head in the Clouds: How Local-First Computing Could Rewire a Broken Internet
Article Mar 7, 2025

Head in the Clouds: How Local-First Computing Could Rewire a Broken Internet

The internet was once a decentralized dream. Now, cloud giants control every byte we send. Can Local-First computing break the monopoly and restore digital freedom?

SB Fisher 4 min read
Scaling Decentralized AI Sustainably and Securely: SuperAI Series - Part 2
Podcast Jul 8, 2024

Scaling Decentralized AI Sustainably and Securely: SuperAI Series - Part 2

Join Alex Goh as we discuss EMC Protocol's technology for distributing AI workloads across diverse computing resources. How to provide transparent and secure ways to scale AI sustainably?

Mindplex Magazine 1 min read
Bittensor (TAO): The Crypto Neural Network for AI and ML Model Development
Article Jun 21, 2024

Bittensor (TAO): The Crypto Neural Network for AI and ML Model Development

Can decentralized AI networks like Bittensor help revolutionize the development of advanced AI models?

Werner Vermaak 6 min read