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Ben Goertzel

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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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Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 — ATEK-639/439 — Fall 2025