Ben Goertzel is a decentralized AI and AGI researcher who co-founded SingularityNET and serves as CEO of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance. Ben Goertzel's Twitter Score is 85 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #9,047 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Ben Goertzel co-founded SingularityNET with the goal of building decentralized, democratic, and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence. He also works at Artificial Superintelligence Alliance as CEO, an organization formed in April 2024 through a community-approved tokenomic merger that combined the $AGIX, $FET, and $CUDOS tokens into a single unified token, $FET, used for AI services, governance, staking, and transactions across multiple blockchains. Ben Goertzel additionally works at TrueAGI Inc., the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society, where he serves as chair, and previously worked at Hanson Robotics as Chief Scientist.
Ben Goertzel has attracted scrutiny for accepting research grants totaling at least $100,000 from Jeffrey Epstein, a fact he has publicly acknowledged and expressed regret over. Ben Goertzel's account has accumulated 77,759 followers as of August 2026 and 8,854 posts, and has been mentioned by 201 accounts a total of 1,121 times.
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