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2026 · Two-Night City Event

Seattle, WA

Featuring

Ben Goertzel · Michael Levin · Roman Yampolskiy

Are we really building AGI?

Night One — The Market Analysis Evening September 17, 2026 · Closed · Invite-only
Day Two — The Research Day September 18, 2026 · TBD · 3 PM - 8 PM · Open to the public
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Two nights of provocation, falsification, and the questions the AI field has never asked. Every contribution becomes part of the independently reviewed Seattle 2026 City AGI Report.

The Format
Two nights. One question.

Seattle runs as two distinct events — a closed evening for corporate delegations, then the open research day. Come to one, or both.

Night One · Closed

The Market
Analysis Evening

September 17, 2026 · Invite-only

A closed-door briefing for corporate delegations: what a physics-grounded theory of intelligence means for markets, capital allocation, and strategy over the next decade — before it reaches the public stage.

Current briefing

The AI IPOs: Priced for AGI, Built on Narrow AI?

Are today's AI companies on a path to AGI that justifies their valuations — or is this the largest mispricing in market history? We evaluate each IPO against how the Department of Defense defines real AGI — a standard we know from direct experience.

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8-seat delegations · $5,000
Day Two · Open

The
Research Day

September 18, 2026 · 3 PM - 8 PM · Public

The public falsification challenge. Nine statements presented live, each built on the last, each open to be broken by anyone in the room. Guest speakers face the same challenge we do. No appeals to authority — only logic.

Current research focus

Are We Building AGI?

Research from inside GEA and beyond, put to one question: what is intelligence — and is what the industry is building actually implementing it?

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Guest Speakers
Ben Goertzel
Ben Goertzel
CEO, SingularityNet
Seattle, WA, USA
TBD
Bio
CEO of SingularityNET and the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance

Dr. Ben Goertzel is a pioneering scientist, entrepreneur, and leading global voice in artificial general intelligence (AGI). He serves as the CEO of SingularityNET, the world’s first large-scale decentralized AI platform, and CEO of TrueAGI, which focuses on building practical, scalable AGI systems rooted in decades of cognitive architecture research. He is also Chairman of the AGI Society, the field’s longest-running scientific organization dedicated to advancing general intelligence research, and CEO of the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance, a multi-project ecosystem committed to developing open, beneficial superintelligence outside the control of Big Tech and nation-states.

Ben coined and formalized the term “Artificial General Intelligence” in his landmark 2005 book Artificial General Intelligence, setting the conceptual foundation for the field long before AGI became mainstream discourse. He has authored over 25 books and 200+ scientific papers spanning AI, cognitive science, complex systems, machine learning, and philosophy of mind. His latest book, The Consciousness Explosion, outlines a vision for the coming transition where humans and advanced machine minds co-evolve toward higher forms of intelligence and experience.

A central focus of Ben’s current work is Hyperon, the largest non–Big Tech AGI architecture and the leading project globally that integrates multiple AI techniques, such as symbolic reasoning, neural learning, probabilistic inference, evolutionary computation, and distributed networks. Hyperon is designed to run on a decentralized, censorship-resistant compute fabric—in stark contrast to the closed, centralized AGI efforts of major corporations.

Throughout his career, Ben has built and led teams across academia, industry, and open-source communities. Prior roles include Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, where he led the development of the cognitive software behind Sophia the Robot (the first robot citizen), and leadership positions across bioinformatics, machine learning, and cognitive modeling labs worldwide. As a public intellectual, he is widely recognized for his thought leadership on AGI safety, decentralized AI governance, crypto-AI ecosystems, longevity science, and transhumanism. He is a frequent speaker at global forums including Davos, TEDx, the Web Summit, The United Nations, China’s Boao Forum, and major AI research conferences.

Outside of research and entrepreneurship, Ben is also a musician. His band Desdemona’s Dream, featuring a humanoid robot lead singer, tours internationally and explores the frontier of AI-human musical collaboration—merging art, embodiment, and generative creativity as another dimension of his lifelong exploration of intelligence.
Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Yampolskiy
Associate Professor, University of Louisville
Louisville, KY, USA
Bio
Roman Yampolskiy, a tenured AI expert at the University of Louisville, boasts 100+ publications in AI safety, cybersecurity, and digital forensics. Known for dynamic speaking, he simplifies complex topics for diverse audiences, from academic conferences to public lectures.

As the founding director of the Cyber Security Lab, Yampolskiy's insights on AI and cybersecurity trends remain relevant. Honored with distinctions like Distinguished Teaching Professor, his dedication to education and research is evident. Holding a PhD from the University at Buffalo, he has contributed to global research institutions.

Yampolskiy's expertise spans AI Safety, Behavioral Biometrics, Cybersecurity, and more, with broad impact in academic and media circles.
Michael Levin
Michael Levin
Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University
Medford, MA, USA
Embodied intelligence beyond emergence, Platonic patterns beyond mathematics
Bio
Dr. Michael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University and Director of the Allen Discovery Center. His background is in computer science and biology, and his group works at the intersection of developmental biophysics, computer science, and cognitive science. He is primarily interested in how intelligence self-organizes in a diverse range of natural, engineered, and hybrid embodiments. Levin has been developing a framework for recognizing and communicating with unconventional cognitive systems; applied to the collective intelligence of cell groups undergoing morphogenesis, these ideas have allowed the Levin lab to develop new applications in birth defects, organ regeneration, and cancer suppression. His lab also produces synthetic life forms, such as Xenobots and Anthrobots, as exploration platforms for patterns of form and behavior in space of possibilities that in-forms systems from simple algorithms to complex animal life.
Hessie Jones
Hessie Jones
Cofounder, Personally Identifiable Information Standards Architecture
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
LinkedIn ↗ Website ↗
The Uphill Crusade against the AGI Hype
This Is AGI
AGI, in its basic form, presupposes an effective transfer of knowledge to machines, with the ability to reason and understand across many domains—a capability that goes beyond current human capabilities.
An illusory concept of a world, ambitiously marketed by Silicon Valley elites that debases human purpose while miraculously creating an Eden for humanity.
Bio
Hessie Jones is a writer, an investor, and a strategist advocating for human-centred AI, education and the ethical distribution of AI. She is a freelance journalist, a former contributor to Forbes, Grit Daily, and the Huffington Post, and a former editor for Towards Data Science.

Her substack is HessieJones and, more recently, System Malfunction. In the last decade, Hessie has worked in the responsible tech space. She is the Cofounder of Personally Identifiable Information Standards Architecture (PIISA), developing an open model to detect and remediate PII in AI models; She is a former board member of Women in AI Ethics™ (WAIE) to elevate the voices of the experts working towards responsible development and design of AI models and systems. In her work, she aims to advance the quality of human-computer experiences through values-based innovation, prioritizing human-centred design.
Adam Peer
Adam Peer
VP, Strategic Partnership, Global Economic Alliance
Eugene, OR, USA
Welcome To This Is AGI!
Bio
Adam Peer has been working in AGI since 2016, when he joined Kimera Systems — a decade of direct exposure to the science, the politics, and the institutional dynamics of building toward general intelligence. That puts him among a small group of non-engineers with substantive, long-form experience inside an AGI research organization, at a time when most "AI experts" entered the field after ChatGPT.

His decade in AGI has included extensive work with industry partners on what most AGI researchers have never seriously considered: how a general intelligence would actually be deployed. Specifically, Adam has spent years exploring AGI in the context of ambient intelligence — environments where intelligence is woven into the fabric of daily life rather than confined to a chatbot window. This is the productization layer of AGI, and it remains almost entirely absent from mainstream AGI discourse, which is dominated by people who have never had to think past the demo.

Originally from South Africa, Adam brings a perspective shaped by both mature and emerging markets, with a clear understanding of how advanced technologies create opportunity in regions often overlooked. His background spans advanced engineering environments, large-scale IT modernization, and AI-driven strategy, and he is known for translating complex technical concepts into strategic direction that bridges technical and business audiences.
At the Global Economic Alliance, Adam leads strategic partnerships and serves as the public face of the organization's events, where his combination of long-tenure AGI exposure, productization experience, and cross-domain fluency makes him a natural host for the kinds of conversations the AI field has been avoiding.
Mounir Shita
Mounir Shita
Global Economic Alliance
Portland, OR, United States
Papers
Intelligence Is a Law of Physics — Not a Property That Emerges From Complexity
This Is AGI
Machines that comprehend the physical world, not just reason.
Machines engineered based on a falsifiable scientific theory of intelligence.
Bio
Mounir Shita has spent nearly thirty years asking a question the AI field has refused to ask: what is intelligence, scientifically? His answer is that intelligence is a physical phenomenon governed by the same laws as gravity and electromagnetism — and that no amount of scaling, benchmarking, or capital deployment will produce AGI until the field accepts that and builds the science to match. He formalized this position in the Theory of General Intelligence, presented at the International Conference for Advanced Research in Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology, and expanded it in his book Science of Intelligence, which argues for establishing intelligence as a distinct field within physics. He founded Kimera Systems, an early AGI research company that built a working prototype before being shut down — an experience that convinced him AGI requires independent scientific oversight, not industry self-regulation. He now leads EraNova Global and the Global Economic Alliance, the nonprofit behind This Is AGI, where his work spans the physics of intelligence, the economics of post-scarcity cognition, and the governance of a civilization that is about to meet something smarter than itself.
Mounir Shita has spent nearly thirty years asking a question the AI field has refused to ask: what is intelligence, scientifically? His answer is that intelligence is a physical phenomenon governed by the same laws as gravity and electromagnetism — and that no amount of scaling, benchmarking, or capital deployment will produce AGI until the field accepts that and builds the science to match. He formalized this position in the Theory of General Intelligence, presented at the International Conference for Advanced Research in Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology, and expanded it in his book Science of Intelligence, which argues for establishing intelligence as a distinct field within physics. He founded Kimera Systems, an early AGI research company that built a working prototype before being shut down — an experience that convinced him AGI requires independent scientific oversight, not industry self-regulation. He now leads EraNova Global and the Global Economic Alliance, the nonprofit behind This Is AGI, where his work spans the physics of intelligence, the economics of post-scarcity cognition, and the governance of a civilization that is about to meet something smarter than itself.

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About This Event

Seattle builds more AI than almost any city on Earth. The engineers here aren't trying to build AGI — they're shipping products, hitting business targets, making models faster and cheaper. But the industry wrapped around their work insists that every step is bringing us closer to general intelligence. Scaling laws. Emergent capabilities.

The Program

The program weaves provocative statements with guest perspectives from researchers, founders, and investors who see the cracks in the current AI narrative. Every presenter — including guest speakers — is subject to the same challenge. No one gets a free pass. Each statement and each perspective is open to be broken by anyone in the room. Audience challenges are submitted live and moderated against the Scientific Code of Conduct. The evening closes with a panel where the speakers and the audience go head to head on what held up and what didn't.

What to expect Doors one hour before · Event 3 PM - 8 PM · Networking with beer & wine
Duration
3 hours + networking
Experience
Statements, guest perspectives, live challenges, and a closing panel — followed by networking with beer & wine
Program
Opening
3.00pm
Opening
Welcome To This Is AGI!
Adam Peer
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Adam Peer
Adam Peer
VP, Strategic Partnership, Global Economic Alliance
Eugene, OR, USA
Welcome To This Is AGI!
Keynote: The Uphill Crusade against the AGI Hype
3.10pm
Keynote
The Uphill Crusade against the AGI Hype
Hessie Jones
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Hessie Jones
Hessie Jones
Cofounder, Personally Identifiable Information Standards Architecture
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
LinkedIn ↗ Website ↗
The Uphill Crusade against the AGI Hype
This Is AGI
AGI, in its basic form, presupposes an effective transfer of knowledge to machines, with the ability to reason and understand across many domains—a capability that goes beyond current human capabilities.
An illusory concept of a world, ambitiously marketed by Silicon Valley elites that debases human purpose while miraculously creating an Eden for humanity.
Science: Is AGI research based on science?
The central question in this section is: Is AGI research based on a true scientific understanding of what intelligence is in nature or is it purely engineering wrapped in mathematics?
Statement 01: AGI research is scienceless.
3.30
Statement
The Scienceless Field: Why AI Has No Idea What It\'s Building
Adam Peer
Every engineering field in human history has been built on a science. Mechanical engineering on Newtonian mechanics. Electrical engineering on Maxwell...
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Adam Peer
Adam Peer
VP, Strategic Partnership, Global Economic Alliance
Eugene, OR, USA
The Scienceless Field: Why AI Has No Idea What It\'s Building
Presentation Summary
Every engineering field in human history has been built on a science. Mechanical engineering on Newtonian mechanics. Electrical engineering on Maxwell's equations. Chemical engineering on thermodynamics and atomic theory. Aerospace engineering on fluid dynamics. The pattern is universal: science discovers nature's blueprint, then engineering builds with it. AI is the only engineering field that has reversed this order. It is trying to engineer intelligence without first establishing what intelligence physically is. After seven decades and hundreds of billions of dollars, the field still cannot offer a scientific definition of its own target. It cannot say what intelligence is, where it comes from, what physical principles govern it, or how to measure its presence in a system. What it offers instead are benchmarks, scaling laws, and capability demonstrations — engineering outputs presented as if they were scientific findings. They are not. This presentation makes the case that AGI will not be built by accident, that the current path is not converging on a science it skipped, and that until the AI field accepts intelligence as a physical phenomenon requiring its own theoretical foundation, it will continue to engineer something it does not understand. The audience is invited to break the argument.
3.45
Statement
TBD
Ben Goertzel
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Ben Goertzel
Ben Goertzel
CEO, SingularityNet
Seattle, WA, USA
TBD
Statement 02: Intelligence is fundamental physics, not emergence.
4.00pm
Statement
Embodied intelligence beyond emergence, Platonic patterns beyond mathematics
Michael Levin
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Michael Levin
Michael Levin
Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University
Medford, MA, USA
Embodied intelligence beyond emergence, Platonic patterns beyond mathematics
4.20
Statement
Intelligence Is a Law of Physics — Not a Property That Emerges From Complexity
Mounir Shita
The AI field has long treated intelligence as something that happens when complexity crosses a threshold — enough neurons, enough parameters, enough...
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Mounir Shita
Mounir Shita
Global Economic Alliance
Portland, OR, United States
Intelligence Is a Law of Physics — Not a Property That Emerges From Complexity
This Is AGI
Machines that comprehend the physical world, not just reason.
Machines engineered based on a falsifiable scientific theory of intelligence.
Presentation Summary
The AI field has long treated intelligence as something that happens when complexity crosses a threshold — enough neurons, enough parameters, enough data, and comprehension spontaneously appears. That assumption has never been scientifically grounded. It is an engineering intuition dressed as a theory.

The Theory of General Intelligence proposes a different foundation: intelligence is not emergent. It is a fundamental physical phenomenon, governed by the same class of laws as gravity, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics. Just as we don't explain gravity by pointing to the complexity of massive objects, we cannot explain intelligence by pointing to the complexity of neural architectures.

This talk presents the physics of intelligence — what it is, how it operates in four-dimensional spac
Papers
Panel: Speaker Challenges
4.40pm
Panel
Speaker Challenges
Ben Goertzel · Michael Levin · Mounir Shita
Danger: Is AGI dangerous?
AGI has been presented as the path to a utopian future or the end of humanity. What does science say?
Statement 06: AGI will never have free will or consciousness.
5pm
Statement
Unexplainability and Uncontrollability of Machine Behavior
Roman Yampolskiy
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Roman Yampolskiy
Unexplainability and Uncontrollability of Machine Behavior
Statement 03: Comprehension, not reasoning, is the key to AGI.
5.20pm
Statement
Key AGI Requirement: Comprehension
Mounir Shita
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Mounir Shita
Mounir Shita
Global Economic Alliance
Portland, OR, United States
Key AGI Requirement: Comprehension
This Is AGI
Machines that comprehend the physical world, not just reason.
Machines engineered based on a falsifiable scientific theory of intelligence.
Papers
Technology: What does AGI look like?
Based on the previous scientific presentations, are we currently engineering towards AGI?
Statements 04 & 05: AGI requires a single algorithm.  ·  AGI cannot be pretrained.
5.40pm
Statement
Single Algorithm vs Pretraining
Mounir Shita
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Mounir Shita
Mounir Shita
Global Economic Alliance
Portland, OR, United States
Single Algorithm vs Pretraining
This Is AGI
Machines that comprehend the physical world, not just reason.
Machines engineered based on a falsifiable scientific theory of intelligence.
Papers
AGI's Impact on Humanity
Panel: Triad of Civilization  ·  Statements 07 & 08 & 09: ASI will break one of the fundamentals of capitalism — because capitalism is tied to physics.  ·  Democracy is structurally incompatible with ASI.  ·  AGI is a top priority for intelligence agencies.
6.00pm
Panel
Triad of Civilization
Adam Peer
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Ben Goertzel · Mounir Shita
Adam Peer
Adam Peer
VP, Strategic Partnership, Global Economic Alliance
Eugene, OR, USA
Triad of Civilization
The Wrap Up
Fireside Chat: Impact on AGI Research
6.30pm
Fireside Chat
Impact on AGI Research
Adam Peer
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Hessie Jones ⟷ Adam Peer
Adam Peer
Adam Peer
VP, Strategic Partnership, Global Economic Alliance
Eugene, OR, USA
Impact on AGI Research
The Statements

9 statements are presented live. Each one is built on the last. Each one is open to be broken by anyone in the room.

Science

AGI research is scienceless.

Every engineering field is built on a science — nature's blueprint for how to build. AI has none.

Intelligence is fundamental physics, not emergence.

The AI field believes intelligence emerges from complexity. It doesn't. Intelligence is as fundamental to the universe as gravity.

AGI will never have free will or consciousness.

Physics tells us the universe supports free will — just not inside a computer. Within any computational system, free will and consciousness are theoretically impossible. They cannot be built. They cannot emerge.

Comprehension, not reasoning, is the key to AGI.

Every AI system reasons. None of them comprehend. Reasoning follows rules. Comprehension understands why the rules exist and what happens when you use them. Without it, AI has no awareness of the consequences of its actions — on the environment, on others, or on itself.

Engineering

AGI requires a single algorithm.

But not the Master Algorithm as popularized by Pedro Domingos. A single algorithm can only come from a scientific understanding of intelligence.

AGI cannot be pretrained.

Name a biological lifeform born with pretrained knowledge of its environment. The scaling hypothesis has no precedent in nature.

Economics

ASI will break one of the fundamentals of capitalism — because capitalism is tied to physics.

Capitalism isn't just an economic theory. It's bound to the physical laws of the universe. ASI will sever one of those bonds. The system cannot survive it.

Governance

Democracy is structurally incompatible with ASI.

Democracy was invented to overturn tyranny. It was never structurally designed for long-term thinking beyond — in today's terms — 2, 4, and 6 year reelection cycles. ASI brings long-term visibility that no democratic system in the past 2,500 years has been able to fully embrace.

Geopolitics

AGI is a top priority for intelligence agencies.

Nick Bostrom in Superintelligence and Leopold Aschenbrenner in Situational Awareness assume intelligence agencies aren't paying attention to AGI because it's too far into the future. That is demonstrably false.

Venue

TBD

Downtown Seattle

September 18, 2026 — 3 PM - 8 PM

The Record

This isn't just an event. Every contribution at this event will be assessed against empirical and theoretical scientific standards, documented in an independently reviewed publication, and synthesized into the 2026 Annual AGI Report.

Primary Output of This Event
Publication · 2026

Seattle 2026 City AGI Report

Every contribution at this event will be assessed against empirical and theoretical scientific standards, documented in an independently reviewed publication, and become part of GEA's permanent scientific record of where AGI research stands.

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Cumulative · Annual

2026 Annual AGI Report

A yearly synthesis of every City AGI Report — GEA's science-grounded counterpart to industry AI reports. Measured by science, not benchmarks or capital.

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For the full review methodology and grounding criteria, see the Speaker Guide.

Publication

Seattle 2026 City AGI Report

The City AGI Report is the formal scientific output of each "This Is AGI. Prove Us Wrong." event. After every tour stop, GEA publishes an independently reviewed report documenting the contributions made by the presenters, the audience challenges raised against them, and the scientific standing of each position.

The report is not a transcript, and it is not a prediction. What it does is describe how well each contribution is grounded in empirical evidence and established theoretical principles at the time of publication.

A position may have strong scientific backing, rest on a coherent but untested theoretical framework, rely on engineering results without an underlying scientific account, or rest on no identifiable scientific basis at all — in which case the report will say so plainly.

Each report is reviewed by a standing board of named researchers. The board is public. The methodology is public. The reviewers sign their work.

Before publication, every presenter receives the review board's assessment and is offered the opportunity to submit a written response, published alongside the assessment.

Annual Publication

2026 Annual AGI Report

The Annual AGI Report is GEA's flagship publication: an independently reviewed yearly synthesis of every City AGI Report produced during the preceding tour year.

It exists because the existing annual AI publications do not ask the right questions. Industry reports measure capital deployed, parameters trained, and benchmarks beaten. The Annual AGI Report asks how well each contribution is grounded in empirical evidence and established theoretical principles.

Each edition identifies which scientific questions advanced during the year, which remain open, and which the field is still refusing to ask.

Over time, the Annual AGI Report is intended to become a canonical reference for anyone who wants to understand the state of AGI research as a scientific question, separate from the commercial interests of the companies producing the technology.

Tickets
Seattle, WA
September 18, 2026  ·  TBD

Pricing phase shown per tier — each tier may be at a different phase

Standard
Standard pricing
$80 per ticket
  • Admission to the event
  • In-person networking with attendees + open beer & wine session after the event
  • TIA — your AI guide who knows every statement, every speaker, every other attendee. Walks you through where you stand, finds aligned (and opposing) attendees, helps you prep questions
  • Attendee directory + intro requests — discover ticket holders who share (or challenge) your positions, request intros via the portal
  • Live chat rooms during the event — discuss presentations in real time
  • Pre/post-event stance journey — see exactly how each speaker shifted (or didn't shift) your position on every statement, with your own pre/post notes
  • Editable attendee profile — bio, stances, social links visible to other ticket holders who you've connected with
  • Access to the City AGI Report for this city
Most popular
Premier
Standard pricing
$110 per ticket
  • Admission to the event
  • In-person networking with attendees + open beer & wine session after the event
  • TIA — your AI guide who knows every statement, every speaker, every other attendee. Walks you through where you stand, finds aligned (and opposing) attendees, helps you prep questions
  • Attendee directory + intro requests — discover ticket holders who share (or challenge) your positions, request intros via the portal
  • Live chat rooms during the event — discuss presentations in real time
  • Pre/post-event stance journey — see exactly how each speaker shifted (or didn't shift) your position on every statement, with your own pre/post notes
  • Editable attendee profile — bio, stances, social links visible to other ticket holders who you've connected with
  • Access to the City AGI Report for this city
  • All City AGI Reports for the next 12 months
  • Annual AGI Report
  • Private Premier-only chat room — higher-signal discussion with other Premier holders
  • Open bar at the networking session
Premier Pro
Research Contributor
Standard pricing
$500 per ticket
  • Admission to the event
  • In-person networking with attendees + open beer & wine session after the event
  • TIA — your AI guide who knows every statement, every speaker, every other attendee. Walks you through where you stand, finds aligned (and opposing) attendees, helps you prep questions
  • Attendee directory + intro requests — discover ticket holders who share (or challenge) your positions, request intros via the portal
  • Live chat rooms during the event — discuss presentations in real time
  • Pre/post-event stance journey — see exactly how each speaker shifted (or didn't shift) your position on every statement, with your own pre/post notes
  • Editable attendee profile — bio, stances, social links visible to other ticket holders who you've connected with
  • Access to the City AGI Report for this city
  • All City AGI Reports for the next 12 months
  • Annual AGI Report
  • Private Premier-only chat room — higher-signal discussion with other Premier holders
  • Open bar at the networking session
  • Submit your analysis of presentations to the City AGI Report*
  • Published bio in the Report
  • Private Pro-only chat room — direct line to organizers + fellow Pros

* Pro submissions are reviewed for scientific quality before publication. See Rule 11.

★ Two-day program · For Organizations
Corporate AGI Delegation
$5,000 one-time · in-person only · two days

A two-day institutional program for organizations participating seriously in the public AGI conversation. Thursday evening: closed dinner and private GEA briefing on the state of AGI in 2026 — for delegations, speakers, and GEA principals. Friday: the public scientific stress-test.

★ Day One · Private GEA Briefing
The State of AGI in 2026
Date to be announced · Venue to be announced

Closed gathering of corporate delegations, the speakers, and the GEA principals. Anchors on a GEA briefing covering early AGI market disruption, how to recognize hype over actual AGI progress, where the law will be challenged first, and what institutions should be preparing for. Closed to the public, press, and Friday general attendees.

What's included
  • Thursday-evening briefing at every This Is AGI city event during the 12-month advisory period
  • Seattle table for 10 — reserved table with priority seating, company / team name on the event page (9 Premier + 1 Premier Pro scientist seat i)
  • Optional submission of one company question for review-board consideration during the live program
  • 12 months of GEA AGI Strategic Advisory Access i — transferable, includes private GEA briefings spanning science, economics, law, governance, ethics, markets, and civilization-scale AGI strategy
Across the tour
  • 15 transferable Premier tickets, redeemable across This Is AGI city events during the 12-month advisory period
  • Virtual access to every This Is AGI city event during the advisory period
  • Full access to each City AGI Report for events attended, plus corporate acknowledgment in the report's sponsor / partner section
  • Full access to the Annual AGI Report, plus corporate acknowledgment in the report's sponsor / partner section

Limited to 10 corporate delegations · the event size limit is a precondition for the evaluative process

Standard
Standard pricing
$80 per ticket
  • Admission to the event
  • Virtual networking — meet other attendees via the attendee directory and live chat rooms regardless of where you are
  • TIA — your AI guide who knows every statement, every speaker, every other attendee. Walks you through where you stand, finds aligned (and opposing) attendees, helps you prep questions
  • Attendee directory + intro requests — discover ticket holders who share (or challenge) your positions, request intros via the portal
  • Live chat rooms during the event — discuss presentations in real time
  • Pre/post-event stance journey — see exactly how each speaker shifted (or didn't shift) your position on every statement, with your own pre/post notes
  • Editable attendee profile — bio, stances, social links visible to other ticket holders who you've connected with
  • Access to the City AGI Report for this city
Most popular
Premier
Standard pricing
$100 per ticket
  • Admission to the event
  • Virtual networking — meet other attendees via the attendee directory and live chat rooms regardless of where you are
  • TIA — your AI guide who knows every statement, every speaker, every other attendee. Walks you through where you stand, finds aligned (and opposing) attendees, helps you prep questions
  • Attendee directory + intro requests — discover ticket holders who share (or challenge) your positions, request intros via the portal
  • Live chat rooms during the event — discuss presentations in real time
  • Pre/post-event stance journey — see exactly how each speaker shifted (or didn't shift) your position on every statement, with your own pre/post notes
  • Editable attendee profile — bio, stances, social links visible to other ticket holders who you've connected with
  • Access to the City AGI Report for this city
  • All City AGI Reports for the next 12 months
  • Annual AGI Report
  • Private Premier-only chat room — higher-signal discussion with other Premier holders
Premier Pro
Research Contributor
Standard pricing
$450 per ticket
  • Admission to the event
  • Virtual networking — meet other attendees via the attendee directory and live chat rooms regardless of where you are
  • TIA — your AI guide who knows every statement, every speaker, every other attendee. Walks you through where you stand, finds aligned (and opposing) attendees, helps you prep questions
  • Attendee directory + intro requests — discover ticket holders who share (or challenge) your positions, request intros via the portal
  • Live chat rooms during the event — discuss presentations in real time
  • Pre/post-event stance journey — see exactly how each speaker shifted (or didn't shift) your position on every statement, with your own pre/post notes
  • Editable attendee profile — bio, stances, social links visible to other ticket holders who you've connected with
  • Access to the City AGI Report for this city
  • All City AGI Reports for the next 12 months
  • Annual AGI Report
  • Private Premier-only chat room — higher-signal discussion with other Premier holders
  • Submit your analysis of presentations to the City AGI Report*
  • Published bio in the Report
  • Private Pro-only chat room — direct line to organizers + fellow Pros

* Pro submissions are reviewed for scientific quality before publication. See Rule 11.

Included benefit

12 months of GEA AGI Strategic Advisory Access

Up to four 60-minute advisory sessions over 12 months. Sessions may be used by the purchasing organization or transferred to portfolio companies, internal teams, founders, executives, researchers, or strategic partners.

Advisory topics include
Not included

Advisory access does not include legal advice, investment advice, lobbying, technical implementation, or custom research reports unless separately agreed.

About the Premier Pro seat

Reserve this seat for a scientist or technical lead

Every Corporate AGI Delegation includes 1 Premier Pro seat alongside the 9 Premier seats. Premier Pro is designed for the technical voice on your team — the person best equipped to engage with the science and contribute to the post-event record.

Who belongs in this seat
What the Pro can do that Premier cannot
Don't waste this seat

Pro is the most valuable seat in your package. Assigning it to a non-technical attendee means your organization loses voice in the scientific record. Save it for the person whose name belongs next to the science.

Corporate AGI Delegation · Seattle

Inquire about a delegation

Tell us about your organization. Our team will follow up within 48 hours with availability, payment options (wire / PO / credit card), and onboarding details for the two-day program — closed Thursday-evening GEA briefing followed by the Friday public stress-test. After payment you'll get a Delegation Lead portal to assign your 8 Friday seats over time as your team firms up.

Corporate AGI Delegation · Seattle

Buy your delegation — $5,000

Two-day institutional program: Thursday-evening private GEA briefing on the state of AGI in 2026, then the Friday public stress-test. Tell us who's leading this delegation — after payment you'll land in a Delegation Lead portal where you can assign your 10 Friday seats (9 Premier + 1 Premier Pro) over time. Each person you add gets their own attendee account + magic-link login automatically.

Heads up · Premier Pro seat

One of your 8 seats is Premier Pro — reserved for a scientist, principal researcher, or senior technical lead. You'll assign all 8 seats later from your portal. Why this matters →

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Step 1 of 2 — Your Tickets
Seattle, WA
Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to be a researcher to attend?

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No. The event is open to anyone interested in the scientific foundations of AGI — researchers, founders, engineers, journalists, investors, policymakers, and curious members of the public. Admission tickets include attendance, audience challenge access through the web app, and after-event networking. What the event asks of you is to engage seriously with the arguments on stage; it does not ask for academic credentials.

What's the difference between Standard, Premier, and Premier Pro tickets?

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Standard includes full event access — all presentations, audience challenges, the closing panel, and networking with beer and wine. Premier includes everything in Standard, plus all City AGI Reports for the next 12 months, the Annual AGI Report, and the Premier-only chat room. Premier Pro — the Research Contributor ticket — includes everything in Premier, plus the right to submit a written analysis of one or more presentations for possible publication in the City AGI Report. Pro submissions are reviewed in two stages (Scientific Code of Conduct, then Independent Review Board) and are published in the Report alongside the board's evaluation. See Rule 11 in the Speaker Guide for full details.

Will this be recorded or streamed?

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Each event is documented in the City AGI Report published after the event — an independently reviewed record of the contributions, audience challenges, and scientific standing of each position. Live streaming and video recording policies are set per city and will be announced in advance.

Can my company sponsor or partner?

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Yes. For sponsorship, partnership, or institutional inquiries, write to [email protected]. Sponsorship is structured to preserve the scientific independence of the event and the Independent Review Board — commercial sponsors do not influence presenter selection, review criteria, or the published Report.

I'm a researcher — how do I speak at a future event?

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Speakers are invited based on the scientific seriousness of their work and its bearing on the event's statements about AGI. If your work is grounded in a relevant scientific field (physics, neuroscience, biology, cognitive science, complexity science, information theory, or adjacent disciplines) and bears on one or more of GEA's statements, write to [email protected] with a short description of your work and the statement(s) it addresses. The full participation criteria are in the Speaker Guide.

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