{"id":196955,"date":"2024-10-03T03:25:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ai-will-save-us-all-but-only-if-its-decentralized-singularitynet-ceo"},"modified":"2024-10-03T03:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:25:14","slug":"ai-will-save-us-all-but-only-if-its-decentralized-singularitynet-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ai-will-save-us-all-but-only-if-its-decentralized-singularitynet-ceo","title":{"rendered":"AI will save us all, but only if it\u2019s decentralized \u2014 SingularityNET CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-will-save-us-all-but-only-if-its-decentralized-singularitynet-ceo3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the recent release of the iPhone 16, which Apple has promised is optimized for artificial intelligence, it\u2019s clear that AI is officially front of mind, once again, for the average consumer. Yet the technology still remains rather limited compared with the vast abilities the most forward-thinking AI technologists anticipate will be <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/artificial-general-intelligence-agi-prototype-early-2025-ben-goertzel\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\">achievable in the near future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As much excitement as there still is around the technology, many still fear the potentially negative consequences of integrating it so deeply into society. One common concern is that a sufficiently advanced AI could determine humanity to be a threat <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/sic-ais-on-each-other-artificial-intelligence-threat-alignment-david-brin-author\/\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\">and turn against us all<\/a>, a scenario imagined in many science fiction stories. However, according to a leading AI researcher, most people\u2019s concerns can be alleviated by decentralizing and democratizing AI\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>On Episode 46 of <em>The Agenda <\/em>podcast, hosts Jonathan DeYoung and Ray Salmond separate fact from fiction by speaking with Ben Goertzel, the computer scientist and researcher who first popularized the term \u201cartificial general intelligence,\u201d or AGI. Goertzel currently serves as the CEO of <a data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/singularitynet-asi-token-merger-dates\" rel=\"null\" target=\"null\" text=\"null\" title=\"null\">SingularityNET and the ASI Alliance<\/a>, where he leads the projects\u2019 efforts to develop the world\u2019s first AGI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent release of the iPhone 16, which Apple has promised is optimized for artificial intelligence, it\u2019s clear that AI is officially front of mind, once again, for the average consumer. Yet the technology still remains rather limited compared with the vast abilities the most forward-thinking AI technologists anticipate will be achievable in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}