Mounir Shita

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.