Topics Discussed: Books that inspired you, Are there intelligent beings all around us?, Dostoevsky, Russian roots, When did you fall in love with AI?, Are humans good or evil?, Colonizing mars, Origin of the term AGI, AGI community, How to build AGI?, OpenCog, SingularityNET, Sophia, Coronavirus, Decentralized mechanisms of power, Life and death, Would you live forever?, Meaning of life, Hat, Question for AGI.

Ben Goertzel
Ben Goertzel a cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society, and chair of Humanity+. He helped popularize the term 'artificial general intelligence'.