{"id":233512,"date":"2026-03-17T22:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ben-goertzel-responds"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:04:54","slug":"ben-goertzel-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ben-goertzel-responds","title":{"rendered":"Ben Goertzel responds"},"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\/SxL2VgKw7sM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As part of Future Day 2026, we hosted a conversation between two of the most provocative minds in AGI \u2013 Ben Goertzel and Hugo de Garis (with Adam Ford as moderator\/provocateur) \u2013 to tackle the ultimate existential question: Is an Artilect War inevitable, and should humanity accept becoming the \u201cnumber two\u201d species?<\/p>\n<p>The discussion will build upon last years discussion between Ben and Hugo on AGI and the Singularity.<\/p>\n<p>It will explore the idea of human transcendence. If we can\u2019t beat them, do we join them?<\/p>\n<p>Will humanity transcend into a Jupiter brain quectotech utility fog?<\/p>\n<p>Is the Artilect War the inevitable conclusion of biological intelligence? Or can we find a path toward existing in a universe that still finds us aesthetically pleasing?<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Intro.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ben-goertzel-responds\">Continue reading \u201cBen Goertzel responds\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Future Day 2026, we hosted a conversation between two of the most provocative minds in AGI \u2013 Ben Goertzel and Hugo de Garis (with Adam Ford as moderator\/provocateur) \u2013 to tackle the ultimate existential question: Is an Artilect War inevitable, and should humanity accept becoming the \u201cnumber two\u201d species? The discussion will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30,6,64,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233512","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}