The future
The first of countless AIs
Bairo Gonzalez sees today's AI as the first of many: not a single mind, but a multitude of niche intelligences in the service of people.
Every first time seems unique while it's happening. The first light bulb, the first airplane, the first page of the internet. Then come so many others that the first becomes just the start of a line.
Bairo Leandro Gonzalez Martinez looks at the artificial intelligence that exists today and sees exactly that: the first. Not the last, not the definitive one. The first of countless others to come.
A multitude, not an oracle
When people talk about AI, many imagine a single giant mind, knowing everything, deciding everything. Bairo imagines the opposite. He sees a multitude of small intelligences, each a specialist in one thing, each serving a concrete pain.
That's the logic of CLAIN, the orchestrator he built: instead of one AI trying to be everything, many niche agents working together, like an orchestra in which each instrument plays its part. On October 1, 2026, he announced the goal of reaching 142 niche AIs in 142 days. For him, that number isn't a ceiling. It's the first count.
The writer Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired magazine, called this trend "cognifying": intelligence being added to everything, the same way electricity was added to everything in the last century. Kelly also insists there won't be a single intelligence, but many, different from one another and different from ours. Bairo reads this idea and adds: different, yes, but all with the same return address, which is a person.
The conversation about what comes next
The technology industry debates intensely what it calls artificial general intelligence: the hypothesis of systems as versatile as a person at almost any task. Some see it as near. The inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has maintained for decades that machines would reach human intelligence around 2029. Some see it as distant or ill-defined. And some, even believing in it, urge caution: Geoffrey Hinton, 2024 Nobel laureate in Physics for discoveries that made machine learning with neural networks possible, has become one of the most insistent voices about the risks. The International AI Safety Report, led by Yoshua Bengio with more than a hundred experts from thirty countries, records precisely this uncertainty: no one knows for sure the speed or the destination.
Bairo speaks of artificial general intelligence as a horizon, not a fact. He believes it may come, and he believes the most important question isn't "when", but "in whose service".
Why "countless" matters
A single powerful intelligence in the hands of a few is an unprecedented concentration of power. The historian Yuval Noah Harari, in Nexus, warns of the risk of information networks controlled by systems no human fully understands.
Bairo's vision bets on diversity as protection. Many intelligences, of many sizes, built by many people, for many purposes, checked by one another and recorded on a network where truth is the validator. In the architecture he imagines, BTZ Chain records what each agent did, and BICOIN is the currency of that network of intelligences. No one needs to trust a machine blindly. It's enough to be able to verify.
In the future he describes
He imagines, in a few decades, an ecology of intelligences as rich as a forest. Some tiny, tending to a single task their whole life. Others enormous, coordinating cities. Many born from other AIs, because he also imagines agents that create agents, always with limits and always with a responsible person at the end of the chain.
And he imagines that the first generation of AI, the one we know now, will be remembered the way we now remember the first computers: enormous, slow, touching in their naivety. Not with contempt. With the tenderness one feels for a child's first words.
A scene
A nine-year-old boy, in 2045, asks his grandmother what the world was like when there was only "one AI". She laughs. She explains that it was never just one, but that, at the beginning, everyone talked as if it were. She tells him people were afraid a machine would rule everything. The boy thinks for a moment and says that would be really boring, that it's much better to have lots of them, each good at one thing, like friends.
The grandmother smiles. She remembers someone who was already saying that when it still seemed like a dream.