Ben Goertzel lays out a 20-step path to beneficial decentralized AGI
bengoertzel · x · 2026-10-06
SingularityNET founder Ben Goertzel published a thread outlining a 20-step roadmap for how "beneficial AGI may actually emerge" (the OpenBGI plan).
- Decentralized super-colony: AGI deployed across a network with no central owner, hardware to software, built on AI-native L1s like ASI:Chain
- Security: correct-by-construction designs plus "purple team" hives of red/blue cybersecurity agents using neural-symbolic AI world-models
- Anti copy-and-fork: cryptographic laterality — nodes secret-share know-how with neighbors so attackers must copy most of the network
- Collective decision-making: decentralized prediction markets (Fusion Social product incoming)
- Agent economy: subnetworks form token-economy "shards"
- Proof-of-Humanity: OpenWater, an open multi-party alternative to World's Orb, to verify humanness in a bot-filled internet
- Governance & ethics: decentralized governance giving humans and AGIs a say, regulated by an AI reputation system, with an evolving OpenBGI "constitution" (draft 0.6)
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