ChainThink reports that on June 21, Ben Goertzel, Chairman of the AGI Association and Chief Scientist of the Sophia robot, stated that artificial general intelligence should not be controlled by venture capital firms or a few tech companies, and advocated building an open, decentralized AGI system via blockchain networks as an alternative to closed-model approaches like those of OpenAI and Anthropic.
He stated that the initiative is being advanced through SingularityNET in collaboration with the Alliance for Artificial Superintelligence, with the goal of enabling global users to collectively own and maintain AI capabilities.
He believes that open-sourcing the code alone is not enough; AGI must also run on distributed infrastructure, otherwise it may still be controlled by a small number of computing providers.
Goertzel also proposed the concept of an "AI agent economy," in which users can deploy multiple AI agents to collaborate on tasks and execute transactions; the underlying system will eventually offer paid AI services while maintaining a decentralized backend architecture without exposing the blockchain's underlying structure.
He expects AGI to emerge between 2027 and 2030 and warned that if technological development is concentrated in only a few countries or companies, it could exacerbate global inequality. His first AI agent product, Omega Claw, will be released soon.