Ben Goertzel is a leading AI researcher and cross-disciplinary scientist, who also has a longstanding interest in experimental fiction. Since 2013 he has been working closely with David Hanson and his company Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong, and the AI R&D firm iCog Labs in Ethiopia, focusing on the synergies between artificial general intelligence and humanoid robotics, and generally creating lots of chaos in a not-so-secretive way.