Weaving the Fabric of Decentralized Intelligence: From Multi‑Agent Systems to a Beneficial ASI

Professor Mihaela Ulieru is a globally renowned scholar and visionary at the forefront of artificial intelligence, distributed systems, and blockchain‑based governance. As a Professor of AI & Distributed Intelligence, she has spent decades pioneering the theory and practice of decentralized, self‑organizing multi‑agent systems — work that now forms the intellectual backbone of the SingularityNET ecosystem and the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Chain. She is dedicated to ensuring that the emergence of superintelligent machines is not a threat but a graceful, resilient evolution that amplifies human potential.

Mihaela has held professorial chairs at leading universities, founded research institutes focused on complex adaptive systems, and authored hundreds of peer‑reviewed papers that bridge the gap between theoretical computer science and societal‑scale challenges. Her seminal work on holonic enterprises, emergency response systems, and the “Pragmatic Web” laid the groundwork for today’s decentralized autonomous organizations. At SingularityNET, she helps architect the governance and algorithmic frameworks that allow AI services to cooperate on a global scale, while the ASI Chain provides the blockchain‑anchored integrity layer that makes this cooperation trustworthy. She believes that the future of intelligence is not monolithic but a diverse, interoperable ecosystem of specialized minds — both human and artificial — coordinated by decentralized protocols that ensure ethics, privacy, and collective flourishing. At UN Blockchain Week, Professor Ulieru shares her grand synthesis: how distributed intelligence, running on a substrate of blockchain and DAO governance, is the only safe path to a beneficial superintelligence.