[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  SingularityNET [@SingularityNET](/creator/twitter/SingularityNET) on x 155.4K followers Created: 2025-07-21 10:16:26 UTC The AI industry as we know it today is dominated by a small handful of firms controlling the essential resources for their approaches to advanced AI and AGI development: computing power, large datasets, and highly skilled researchers. Much of the work undertaken by these companies is broadly valuable AI R&D. However, it remains constrained by narrow business models that prioritize architectures designed primarily to serve those models and maximize shareholder profit. A study titled ‘The growing influence of industry in AI research’ documented how these companies have shaped the field for over a decade by increasingly defining career incentives, what counts as the leading edge of AI innovation, and how benchmark performance is measured. These dynamics have established narrow priorities for AGI research that favor scaling-based approaches while overlooking more viable paths to true human-level AGI, such as OpenCog Hyperon and large-scale nonlinear-dynamical brain simulation. This corporate dominance is primarily driving the pursuit of computationally intensive AI approaches, such as LLMs, through massive data center projects such as Meta's Manhattan-sized Hyperion facility and OpenAI's Project Stargate, increasing demand for resources that only Big Tech can supply and further strengthening their significant advantage. This capture of the AI pipeline carries profound implications for the future of AGI development and global technological governance. What began as open, collaborative research for the benefit of humanity has evolved into a corporate oligopoly where critical decisions on the future of AI are made in boardrooms rather than through participatory decision-making. This concentration raises a fundamental question about the trajectory of AGI development: How can the development of this technology serve the broader interests of humanity and other sentient beings when constrained by corporate competition and shareholder returns? The current trajectory systematically excludes global and decentralized representation that can balance the exercise of power, community-governed development models that prioritize collective benefit, and alternative architectures that emphasize wisdom-based intelligence, consciousness development, and democratic inclusiveness. Yet this trajectory is not inevitable. The “Participatory Framework for a Global AGI Constitution,” co-authored by Dr. @bengoertzel, Dr. @3anneloes, Dr. Mariana Bozesan, and Laura George, J.D., outlines concrete mechanisms for ensuring that the choice between corporate dominance and democratic stewardship of humanity's most transformative technology remains within our collective power to influence:  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [agi](/topic/agi) [coins ai](/topic/coins-ai) [Post Link](https://x.com/SingularityNET/status/1947239235800420787)
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The AI industry as we know it today is dominated by a small handful of firms controlling the essential resources for their approaches to advanced AI and AGI development: computing power, large datasets, and highly skilled researchers.
Much of the work undertaken by these companies is broadly valuable AI R&D. However, it remains constrained by narrow business models that prioritize architectures designed primarily to serve those models and maximize shareholder profit.
A study titled ‘The growing influence of industry in AI research’ documented how these companies have shaped the field for over a decade by increasingly defining career incentives, what counts as the leading edge of AI innovation, and how benchmark performance is measured.
These dynamics have established narrow priorities for AGI research that favor scaling-based approaches while overlooking more viable paths to true human-level AGI, such as OpenCog Hyperon and large-scale nonlinear-dynamical brain simulation.
This corporate dominance is primarily driving the pursuit of computationally intensive AI approaches, such as LLMs, through massive data center projects such as Meta's Manhattan-sized Hyperion facility and OpenAI's Project Stargate, increasing demand for resources that only Big Tech can supply and further strengthening their significant advantage.
This capture of the AI pipeline carries profound implications for the future of AGI development and global technological governance. What began as open, collaborative research for the benefit of humanity has evolved into a corporate oligopoly where critical decisions on the future of AI are made in boardrooms rather than through participatory decision-making.
This concentration raises a fundamental question about the trajectory of AGI development: How can the development of this technology serve the broader interests of humanity and other sentient beings when constrained by corporate competition and shareholder returns?
The current trajectory systematically excludes global and decentralized representation that can balance the exercise of power, community-governed development models that prioritize collective benefit, and alternative architectures that emphasize wisdom-based intelligence, consciousness development, and democratic inclusiveness.
Yet this trajectory is not inevitable. The “Participatory Framework for a Global AGI Constitution,” co-authored by Dr. @bengoertzel, Dr. @3anneloes, Dr. Mariana Bozesan, and Laura George, J.D., outlines concrete mechanisms for ensuring that the choice between corporate dominance and democratic stewardship of humanity's most transformative technology remains within our collective power to influence:
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