Ben Goertzel: AGI Two Years From Economic Overhaul

Ben Goertzel delivered a stark AGI timeline prediction to Michaël van de Poppe: human-level machines will seize most economic roles within two years, creating an AI job displacement impact gap where jobs vanish before abundance systems activate. The 50-year AGI veteran, now building the tech, flagged the interim chaos as the unpriced risk in the US economy's all-in AI wager, while pushing blockchain decentralized AI future via tools like Bitcoin to prevent tech giants from monopolizing the shift.