AGI or Artificial Jagged Intelligence(AJI) : a wake up call?

The mad race to get to AGI/ASI is real and frighteningly fast. But the prevailing bet—that once we “hit AGI,” systems will somehow self-align society—is naïve at best and reckless at worst. Look at the cost that we’re already paying with our internet, which is slowly dying with the rapidly accelerating AI slop. The public internet is being now swamped by 16+ billion AI-generated images (34 million being added daily) rending it unfit for developing the future models. 52% of the articles on the internet are written by AI and realistic looking AI generated videos are everywhere, drowning human signal and breaking the risk–reward model for creators. Almost 77% of the organizations are concerned with AI hallucinations and these increase in reasoning models. Next evolution of AI is agentic AI—systems that can act on their own. Lets take a step back and understand the true risks. Today’s models are astonishing intelligent and broken at the same time. They can design a chip, debug a driver, and summarise every paper on a topic – and then fail at basic causal reasoning or misread a simple real-world situation. Or misscount alphabets in simple words like straberry or garlic. This is jagged intelligence: extreme spikes of capability, deep valleys of brittleness. And we’re giving that jagged intelligence agency. “We are taking an intelligence that hallucinates, that overestimates its own certainty, and we’re giving it the keys to: your cloud account, your bank account, your factory, your city and eventually your life.”

The risk isn’t a Hollywood apocalypse to be enjoyed with a popcorn. It’s something more mundane and real world dangerous: imagine millions of small, confident, slightly wrong actions rippling through logistics, infrastructure, finance, cities and our societies. While it’s easy to spin up millions of these agents almost at a flip of a switch it’s hard to control them reliably. The foundation models still hallucinate in a complex workflows and agents can turn rouge, can get corrupted or can be highjacked by malicious actors. Shipping autonomy on top of instability is like pouring concrete on the quicksand. A perfect receipe for disaster. And imagine that this Agentic AI will prove foundational for next evolution, the physical AI, allowing us to fill our precious earth with robots and machines which will work autonomously. Without adequate safety testing and validation of Agentic AI and Physical AI in real world and anchoring them with human in the loop, we are heading into a massive crisis almost blindfolded. Imagine an ecosystem of agents optimising local objectives in systems they barely understand.

The jaggedness didn’t matter as much when the AI only produced text on a screen to be read by a human being. It becomes existentially important when this AI can act. And unlike the internet, we only get one Earth, a tiny pale blue dot. We need to make this transition safely and humanly responsible way by grounding this AI properly. The missing piece isn’t more web data or compute or bigger models. It’s actual experience – coherent, temporal, grounded experience of a real world that has continuity, consequences and humans in the loop. Our next research quests in pursuit of AGI of combining LLMs with world models are irrelevant, unless these approaches are based on dynamic datasets, which mimic the real world closely. Inshort we need a city scale simulator, which is generating data about environment, citscapes, buildings, people who are living in it, AI agents, robots and all of them synced through time scale.

To make sure that we are able to build the city scale databed to help bring to life real world grounded AI and to get to validate the foundations of man-machine society of future safely in a humanity first model, we are building an AI innovation and data city at Bangalore (code named B1Aicity). A city, built from ground up specifically for AI research and innovation, inhabited by AI builders. Unlike web data that is full of noisy snapshots, memes and things that may not be really meaningful in a day to day life, AI City generates data in one continuous, connected story about real people, real places, real actions and their consequences. Imagine a 70-acre City as a living, breathing “AI factory for the physical world”. A home to 25,000 AI researchers & builders on campus, each with agentic digital twins (software agents), achored with digitized human identity, allowing for some kind of universal basic intelligence(UBI) at city scale, and physical AI twins (robots, AVs, embodied systems) working seamlessly together. A fully sensed and simulated innovation district: buildings, streets, logistics, energy, mobility together with humans – all mirrored in a city-scale world model. This single city potentially could generates on the order of 1 exabytes of multimodal data per year. However it is not just about the scale of data, but unlike web scrape, this world model data is: 1. Coherent – same people, places, and assets across text, code, video, sensors, BIM, logs. 2. Temporal – full histories of tasks, decisions, actions, and outcomes. 3. Action-linked – every byte tied to real objectives in robotics, logistics, mobility, buildings, and governance. It’s the perfect data substrate to move from “chatbots that talk” to agents and robots that reliably do and potentially co-exists with us without ripping apart the fabric of our society.

To enable this massive moonshot we need AI startups, research labs, AI researchers and AI innovators to come together with ecosystem builders, who are aligned to the ethos of building a safe man-machine society. If you are one of them, we are looking for you. Lets build this future together.

Our northstar : Instead of hoping for autoalignment, building AI with humanity first grounding

1. Stop assuming auto-alignment, build to extend human society. Artificial Intelligence, just like human intellligence is dual edged. Alignment must be carefully thought of, specifically tested, and enforceable at scale to be able to work together with humanity.
2. Anchor agency to identity. If an action affects people, it must map back to a verified human digital identity and explicit consent—or it shouldn’t ship.
3. Fix value flow. Without a creator-first risk–reward ledger, we are systemically extracting from humans to subsidize the growth of machines. That’s untenable and will lead to unsafe transition. We must have a way to keep rewarding the AI trainers and aligners to make sure that we have a better version of our society, not worse.
4. Make safety measurable in real world. Hallucinations, jailbreaks, and misuse aren’t mere PR issues anymore; as AI emerges from the lab into the real world, they are engineering and governance liabilities. We need to evaluate in real world, red-team, publish and keep monitoring, just like we do with human intelligence. While early AI relied on benchmarks to guide the development, we much have real life test bed to ensure that it works in real world, is safe and can be trusted.

The humanity first AI research and innovation ecosystem that we’re building

• Seed-Linked Identity Layer: Bind agent actions, permissions, and provenance to digitized human identity and revocable consent. Accountability by design.
• Risk–Reward Ledger: Transparent, auditable routing of value to creators across media, code, data, and models. Humans get paid first.
• Safety Stack for Agents: AI agent ecosystem that has capability limits, continuous evaluations, incident response, and recall—before scale, not after harm.
• Open, interoperable standards: Open protocols anyone can implement. No walled gardens. No black boxes dictating public reality.
• Safe Agentic AI and Physical AI evolution: Agentic AI will further scale into physical AI, it is important that we lay the foundations of physical AI in a similar open, safe and responsible way.
• AI multimodal test data for AI research. What is means is a continuous streams of perception, action, and feedback. That makes it possible to train agents that understand cause and effect, not just pattern matching.
• AI research city to house above efforts and more together with the AI community that is excited about building AI for real world, ecosystem for AI safety and contineous monitoring. We fundamentally believe that AI safety in real world can't be an afterthought, the systems has to be thought of before hand with a humanity first perspective, before we unleash AGI into our society.

This is a moonshot movement, not a pitch, please join

We aim to mobilize 10,000+ AI founders and researchers across AI startups, corporate innovation labs, university ecosystems, and policy partners in 10+ partner nations—to build together with India’s 20mn+ massive developer community at the core—to make this the default way AI is built for real world. Its brutally tough, almost impossible to do, however for the sake of the pale blue dot, we must do it. We must remember that unfortunately we dont have a version control on our precious earth.

Why this AI grounding matters—now

• Trust: If you can’t trust what you see or who made it, society stalls.
• Dignity: Humans must be recognized—and rewarded—for their labor and creativity. Safe transition is better than jobless chaos.
• Safety: Agentic systems need identity, limits, and recall.
• Sovereignty: Communities and countries deserve control over how AI uses their data and culture.

A line in the sand : A Humanity first AI Pledge for the builders

1. We will not ship unaccountable AI agents and physical AI. They must be tethered to real human identities and grounded in real world data.

2. We will not normalize creator strip-mining. Risk -reward to human creators must hold.

3. We will not ship without real world validation.

4. We will not accept “move fast and pray alignment” as strategy.

5. We will recognize human ingenuity and belief in limitless human potential.

We choose a human-first path. If you do too—join us.

All this is not just daydreaming, we are building it on the ground, today. Our first pitstop is a 500,000 sq feet of AI innovation space, Bharat1 AI Superpark, inbuilt with lightening speed connectivity (upto 400 GBps) to all AI clouds with >1ms latency. This would enable AI model training without the associated pain of moving data around slowly. Located in the heart of Sarjapura tech ecosystem in Bangalore, its the perfect place for technology builders to come together with AI researchers. This is where we are pulling together the biggest gathering of global AI community that can help build this humanity first AI future together.

Aligned with AI summit happening in India, we are also launching the " humanity first AI city moonshot" in feb 2026, targetting,

1. Founders & builders: To help ship identity-aware AI agents and provenance tools. We are building the AI innovation infrastructure and data and research databed for AGI research and AI safety, however we need AI builders and researchers to exploit it fully.

2. Universities & AI research labs: To co-lead open AI sandboxes and evaluations and research into real world AI usecases and safety.

3. Corporates: To research agentic AI safety, pilot the ledger, co-fund standards, open and operate real-world testbeds.

4. Policy & civil society: To help write societal AI guardrails that protect people without freezing progress.

Add your name. Add your team. Add your organization. Lets shape the terms of our man-machine society, safely and responsibly, with grounded AI agents and robots—before they get set for us. Join us as we build the future, a humanity first AI future.