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Ben Goertzel
scientist · 20 mentions across 1 reading
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Ben Goertzel is a transhumanist advocate and AI entrepreneur who exemplifies the cosmism strand of the TESCREAL ideological bundle that the course readings argue shapes contemporary AGI development. He founded SingularityNET, a decentralized platform positioned as enabling democratic access to artificial general intelligence, and his work bridges transhumanist philosophy with practical AI infrastructure. The readings use Goertzel to trace how techno-utopian ideologies descended from eugenics have become embedded in the institutions and values driving the current AI race.
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1. Introduction
Recent years have seen a resurgence of the goal to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system defined differently by the various people and organizations that seek to build it. For instance, OpenAI defines AGI as …These ideologies, which are direct descendants of first-wave eugenics, emerged in roughly this order, and many were shaped or founded by the same individuals. We show how the TESCREAL bundle has come to animate the AGI race by examining how…Cosmism. The third techno-futuristic ideology in the TESCREAL bundle is cosmism, which has been championed most notably by Ben Goertzel, a transhumanist who participated in the Extropian movement and later founded SingularityNET.io, which a…
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