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AGI, RSI and Superintelligence
Article Oct 6, 2026

AGI, RSI and Superintelligence

AGI, superintelligence and recursive self-improvement are becoming moving targets. Ben Goertzel untangles their meanings and argues that today’s language models may obscure the path to faster, self-evolving AI.
Ben Goertzel 32 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
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
The Nine Days of Madness
Article Oct 9, 2026

The Nine Days of Madness

A (human-generated) work of hopefully-not-predictive fiction…
Ben Goertzel 57 min read
A Beneficial AGI Manifesto
Article Oct 6, 2026

A Beneficial AGI Manifesto

Why do we need another manifesto? In Ben Goertzel's own words: "I am actively working to bring Beneficial General Intelligence about, sooner rather than later. And I think you probably should be too.
Ben Goertzel 21 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
Harmonizing Progress and Safety in Recursive AI Self-Improvement
Article Oct 6, 2026

Harmonizing Progress and Safety in Recursive AI Self-Improvement

Bringing the GOLEM meta-architecture and the Iter Omega runtime together for safe self-improvement, and finding some wildly elegant math in the mix…
Ben Goertzel 45 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
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
Cautionary tales and a ray of hope
Article Feb 7, 2024

Cautionary tales and a ray of hope

David Wood presents four cautionary tales about the transition to AGI, each grounded in past events and considering how matters could develop further in the coming months and years. 

David Wood 27 min read