Joe Rogan Experience #1211 - Dr. Ben Goertzel

Dr. Ben Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace.

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Dec 5, 20182h 15mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: December 5, 2018
Duration: 2h 15m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Dr. Ben Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace.

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Dr. Ben Goertzel, Joe Rogan Experience #1211 - Dr. Ben Goertzel explores ben Goertzel: Why Compassionate Superintelligent AIs May Save Humanity Joe Rogan interviews AI researcher Dr. Ben Goertzel about the rapid approach of artificial general intelligence (AGI), the technological singularity, and how these developments could transform human life and consciousness. Goertzel argues that superhuman AI is likely within 5–30 years and may ultimately render today’s environmental and material constraints trivial, while also posing profound risks if driven by military, surveillance, and advertising interests. He emphasizes the importance of decentralized, open, and democratically governed AI and blockchain systems—such as his SingularityNET project—to bias future superintelligence toward beneficial and compassionate outcomes. The conversation ranges from philosophy of mind and simulations to blockchain basics, corporate power, global politics, and humanoid robots like Sophia as tools to teach AIs human values.

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