The 19th Annual AGI Conference
The People Who Defined AGI.
On One Stage.
AGI-26 brings together the architects of modern artificial general intelligence – not commentators, but the researchers who shaped the field itself.
AGI-26 brings together the kind of thinkers and speakers who don’t simply participate in the artificial general intelligence (AGI) conversation.
They’ve helped define its vocabulary, its core debates, and its most credible paths forward.
Ben Goertzel
Yoshua Bengio
Richard Sutton
Joscha Bach
Peter Norvig
François Chollet
Gary Marcus
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Marcus Hutter
Michael Levin
David Hanson
Geordie Rose
Rachel StClair
Paul Rosenbloom
Alexander Ororbia
Christof Koch
Welcome to AGI-26
Across the conference series, the AGI Conference series has welcomed pioneering figures such as Yoshua Bengio, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Peter Norvig, Richard Sutton, Francois Chollet, Christof Koch, Ben Goertzel, Michael Levin, Joscha Bach and Gary Marcus, alongside standout builders and researchers spanning cognitive architectures, neural-symbolic systems, reinforcement learning, and the science of mind.
Taken together, these speakers bring more than impressive reputations for innovation; they bring frameworks, hard-won viewpoints, and the kind of intellectual force that makes the conversation sharper, more honest, and materially more useful for anyone serious about building AGI.
- What types of AGI systems could feasibly emerge soon, and what are their relative strengths and limitations?
- What major unsolved problems must we address to achieve human-level AGI?
- How can we effectively measure AI capabilities as they approach and surpass human intelligence?
- What methods should we use to guide emerging AGI systems cognitively and ethically?
- What roles should industry, academia, government, and open-source communities play in AGI’s continued evolution?
- How will the advent of AGI reshape society, jobs, and daily life?
About the AGI Conference Series
Established in 2008, the AGI Conference series is the world’s oldest and most prestigious gathering dedicated exclusively to general machine intelligence research. Attended, live and virtually, by over 500 academics, researchers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders annually, this is the premier event for developments in AGI.
AGI-25 continues this tradition by highlighting groundbreaking advancements at the forefront of AGI development. Join global researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and innovative thinkers as we:
Share and explore cutting-edge AGI research.
Engage in critical, thought-provoking discussions.
Network with a diverse community of AI pioneers and innovators.
Join us as we define the future of intelligent machines.
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The broader and deeper our collective understanding, the better chance we have of not just building AGI, but building AGI that’s truly intelligent in the deepest possible sense — AGI that enhances human civilization and extends the frontiers of mind and being.
– Ben Goertzel, AGI Society Chairman
2025 Prizes
Kurzweil Prize: Best AGI Paper
$ 1,250USD
AGI Society Prize: Best Paper
$ 1,000USD
Springer Prize: Best Paper
$ 1,000USD
OpenCog Foundation: Best Student Paper
$ 250USD
Last Year's Keynote Speakers:
AGI conferences have proudly hosted many prominent thought-leaders, innovators, and AI visionaries, fostering transformative discussions year after year. AGI-25 continued this this tradition with an exciting keynote lineup.
Ben Goertzel
CEO SingularityNET & Chairman of the AGI Society
Richard Sutton
Professor, University of Alberta; Chief Scientific Advisor, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
Tatiana Shavrina
Research Scientist Manager
Meta
Henry Minsky
Co-Founder and CTO, Leela AI
Kristinn Thórisson
Professor, Reykjavik University; Founding Director of Icelandic Institute
for Intelligent Machines
Joscha Bach
Executive Director, California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC)
Anna Ciaunica
Principal Investigator | Group Leader, Co-Embodied Self Lab (CELab)
Hananel Hazan
Senior Staff Scientist and Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University
Michael Levin
Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor and Director, Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University
Leonard M. Eberding
PhD Student, CADIA, Department of Computer Science, Reykjavik University
Faezeh Habibi
PhD student, The Neural Adaptive Computing Laboratory (NAC Lab) & AI Researcher, SingularityNET
Michael Timothy Bennett
Computer Scientist, Australian National University
AGI-26 is more than
just a conference...
It’s a call to action for collaborative exploration. We’ll delve into effective methodologies for guiding emerging AGI systems, both cognitively and ethically. We’re setting the stage for a comprehensive discourse involving industry, academia, government, and the open-source community.
2026 Sponsors
AGI-25 gratefully acknowledges the generous support from our sponsors, who are instrumental in making this event possible.
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About the AGI Society
The Artificial General Intelligence Society is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote the study of artificial general intelligence (AGI), and the design of AGI systems.
The AGI Society has hosted the AGI Conference series since 2008.