{"id":224164,"date":"2025-10-28T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/agi-will-it-kill-us-or-save-us"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:12:40","slug":"agi-will-it-kill-us-or-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/agi-will-it-kill-us-or-save-us","title":{"rendered":"AGI: will it kill us or save us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1e0jhdavt6k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be humanity\u2019s greatest invention\u2026 or our biggest risk.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of TechFirst, I talk with Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, about the future of AGI, the possibility of superintelligence, and what happens when machines think beyond human programming.<\/p>\n<p>We cover:<br \/> \u2022 Is AGI inevitable? How soon will it arrive?<br \/> \u2022 Will AGI kill us \u2026 or save us?<br \/> \u2022 Why decentralization and blockchain could make AGI safer.<br \/> \u2022 How large language models (LLMs) fit into the path toward AGI<br \/> \u2022 The risks of an AGI arms race between the U.S. and China.<br \/> \u2022 Why Ben Goertzel created Meta, a new AGI programming language.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccc Topics include AI safety, decentralized AI, blockchain for AI, LLMs, reasoning engines, superintelligence timelines, and the role of governments and corporations in shaping the future of AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u23f1\ufe0f Chapters.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 \u2013 Intro: Will AGI kill us or save us?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/agi-will-it-kill-us-or-save-us\">Continue reading \u201cAGI: will it kill us or save us?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be humanity\u2019s greatest invention\u2026 or our biggest risk. In this episode of TechFirst, I talk with Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, about the future of AGI, the possibility of superintelligence, and what happens when machines think beyond human programming. We cover: \u2022 Is AGI inevitable? How soon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,9,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224164","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}