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

BlockBeats News, June 21st, Ben Goertzel, Chairman of the AGI Society and Chief Scientist of Sophia the Robot, stated that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is "too important to be controlled by venture capital or a few tech companies," and advocated for building an open, decentralized AGI system through a blockchain network to replace the closed model path of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Goertzel is advancing this plan through his project SingularityNET and the "Artificial General Intelligence Alliance." The system operates on a network of encryption and aims to enable AI capabilities to be collectively owned and maintained by users worldwide. He emphasized that open-source code alone is not sufficient; AGI must run on a distributed infrastructure to avoid being controlled by a few computing power giants.

He proposed the concept of an "AI Agent Economy," where users can deploy multiple AI agents to collaborate on tasks and execute transactions. The future system will provide paid AI services and maintain a decentralized backend architecture while hiding the blockchain's underlying structure from the user end.

Goertzel expects AGI to emerge between 2027 and 2030 and warned that if technological development remains concentrated in a few countries or companies, it may exacerbate global inequality. He mentioned that his first AI agent product, Omega Claw, will be released soon.

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