Humanity will be better off if AI is decentralized and democratized (feat. Dr. Ben Goertzel)

Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO and chief scientist at SingularityNET, explains why decentralizing AI is critical to the development of artificial general intelligence. He also explores AI’s potential to solve human aging and shares his thoughts on what sentience might look like in an artificial general intelligence.

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Timestamps:
(00:00) - Introduction to The Agenda podcast and this week’s episode
(02:56) - AI’s journey from the 1950s to today
(06:16) - How AI eventually evolves to the level of superintelligence
(07:10) - Does AI really pose a risk to humanity?
(12:25) - The importance of decentralizing artificial intelligence
(15:37) - In the future, who will “own” the AI?
(25:31) - What Hollywood got right and wrong about AI
(35:53) - Will AI help humans become immortal?
(40:46) - Dr. Goertzel explains The Consciousness Explosion

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