"Where the future of human civilization begins with a conversation"
In 1933, Ernest Rutherford proclaimed that anyone looking for a source of power in the transformation of atoms was "talking moonshine." Five years later, nuclear fission was discovered. We cannot have a Rutherford moment in Artificial General Intelligence.
A Living Laboratory for AGI Readiness
The Global Economic Alliance (GEA) was founded to operate as a living laboratory— a unique organization dedicated to researching the economic and governance impact of future AGI by testing proposed models in real-life scenarios. Rather than theorizing from a distance, GEA creates practical frameworks and experiments with institutional designs that could shape humanity's transition into an AGI-enabled world.
The AGI Global Summit represents GEA's flagship initiative: bringing together the world's leading minds to move beyond speculation and establish scientifically grounded pathways forward.
Today, AGI research exists in a fog of uncertainty. It is increasingly difficult to distinguish genuine scientific progress from commercial hype and speculative narratives. Researchers work without consensus on fundamental questions: What even is intelligence? What capabilities are necessary and sufficient? Which architectural approaches show real promise versus dead ends?
The Summit and the AGI Readiness Report aim to change this. By bringing rigorous scientific methodology to bear on competing paradigms, we provide researchers with evidence-based direction—not prescriptive mandates, but evaluated pathways grounded in what the science actually tells us.
AGI research today happens almost exclusively within for-profit technology companies. While these organizations employ brilliant engineers and researchers, they operate within commercial constraints and shareholder interests. There is no cross-disciplinary view on AGI.
But if AGI is powerful enough to rewrite the social fabric of civilization—to fundamentally transform economics, governance, law, social structures, and human meaning itself—then developing it in isolation from these fields is not just incomplete. It is reckless.
The AGI Global Summit exists because no single discipline can prepare us for AGI alone. We need economists who understand how labor markets will transform. Legal scholars who can design frameworks for non-human agency. Governance experts who know how democracies adapt—or fail. Sociologists who study meaning-making when work becomes optional. Theologians who examine questions of purpose and human flourishing. And AI researchers who can ground technical possibilities in reality.
This is why the Summit brings together seven disciplines in a deliberate three-level structure—from foundational research within fields to complete synthesis across all domains.
What does the science actually tell us about viable paths to AGI that align with a flourishing human society? We ground recommendations in rigorous empirical foundations, not commercial hype or speculative narratives.
What do economists, legal scholars, and policymakers need to understand about AGI's impact on markets, legal systems, and governance structures? We provide evidence-based frameworks for institutional adaptation.
August 25-27, 2026 | Portland, Oregon
Be part of the dialogue that shapes humanity's AGI-enabled future