# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-goertzel
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:26:16.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-goertzel"
name: "Ben Goertzel"
slug: "ben-goertzel"
description: "Ben Goertzel is a computer scientist, artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, and businessman. He helped popularize the term artificial general intelligence (AGI)."
tagline: "Author and researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Ben_Goertzel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           11.735036
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 9180
platforms:
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    handle:    "bengoertzel"
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  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump