Building AGI for Humanity: Dr. Ben Goertzel’s 20-Years on the Path to Beneficial AGI - #SFTechWeek

Wednesday, Oct 7

6:00pm

Hosted by

•ᴥ•

◕‿◕

Building AGI for Humanity: Dr. Ben Goertzel’s 20-Year Quest for Beneficial AGI For more than 20 years, Dr. Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET has pursued a different path toward Artificial General Intelligence — one designed to be open, decentralized and ultimately beneficial to humanity rather than controlled by a handful of companies. That vision is now becoming tangible. OpenCog Hyperon combines neural AI with symbolic reasoning and structured knowledge; MeTTa allows AI systems to reason over and modify their own programs; and Omega, SingularityNET’s emerging persistent agent, can build long-term memory and learn continuously from its interactions. Together, these technologies are intended to move beyond today’s LLMs toward AI that can reason, learn, remember, adapt and make more of its internal processes inspectable. In this intimate conversation, Ben will share the 20-year quest behind Beneficial AGI, what has changed recently to bring these technologies together, and why he believes this approach could offer a fundamentally different future for advanced intelligence. We’ll explore what Beneficial AGI actually means in practice — and what it could take for increasingly powerful AI to serve humanity rather than simply become more powerful. This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.