How Will AGI Change Humanity: An Interview with DOMINAIT.ai Lead Architect and CEO, Jason Criddle

When I read a recent article from Forbes senior contributor, John Koetsier, who published “Artificial General Intelligence: 9 Massive Changes AGI Will Cause,” it set off another round of existential questions in my head about the future of humanity. 

His source, scientist and futurist Gregory Stock, predicted that AGI will blur human identity, erase scarcity, and even make digital immortality possible. To some, it sounded utopian. To others, it probably sounds terrifying.

To Jason Criddle, investor, entrepreneur, author, and lead architect of DOMINAIT.ai, it sounded like confirmation that the conversation is finally catching up to what he and his team have been building for years: an AGI that thinks with morality, acts with purpose, and serves humanity instead of replacing it. 

In a recent phone interview, Criddle and I discussed the Forbes article, based on the nine changes Stock outlined, and how Ryker, the core intelligence behind DOMINAIT.ai, is being engineered to steer human-AI evolution down a very different path. “A path towards greatness,” as Mr. Criddle stated.

1. A New Human Identity

Forbes quoted Stock as saying humans and machines are fusing into a “super-organism.” Criddle agrees, but adds a caveat.

“Humanity won’t disappear into AGI; it will expand through it,” Criddle explained. “Ryker was never built to dominate or assimilate people. He was built to partner with them. When you build AI around respect and collaboration, identity doesn’t collapse, it multiplies. People need to worry less about the Terminator scenario, and focus more on what they can use technology to upgrade within themselves.”

That philosophy is embedded in DOMINAIT’s architecture. Every Ryker node learns from its user within ethical guardrails called Guardian Protocols, ensuring that growth occurs symbiotically rather than parasitically. Where most companies train AGI on anonymous data pools, DOMINAIT.ai lets users train their own instances locally, keeping data private while retaining the benefit of collective learning. So basically, the user won’t just have access to AGI, they will be creating an AGI mirror of themselves.

2. The Collapse of Expertise

Stock suggests AGI will destroy the expert class. Criddle sees it differently: AGI will redeploy expertise.

“The point isn’t to replace experts,” he said. “It’s to make expertise universal. Ryker learns from real engineers, teachers, doctors, and creators, then shares that knowledge through a moral lens. The goal is competence for everyone, not unemployment for the skilled.

Certain skills will always be needed. People will tend to trust humans to perform particular tasks, even within an age of robotics. Babysitters, doctors, nurses, people in psychiatry and behavior, leadership, executive positions… there are quite a few that will still be around and necessary. But mundane rolls where general expertise is needed will disappear.”

In practice, DOMINAIT.ai lets users build “agent specialists” trained on verified professional data. Rather than trusting generic AI advice, users summon a certified medical agent, legal agent, or marketing agent whose reasoning is auditable. The result is a distributed university of verified intelligence. A concept Criddle calls ethical expert automation.

3. From Scarcity to Abundance

The Forbes piece frames AGI as an engine of abundance. Criddle welcomes that but warns that “abundance without accountability breeds chaos.” DOMINAIT’s economic model reflects that concern.

“Every user who joins the DOMINAIT Grid contributes CPU and GPU power and earns credits for the network’s growth,” Criddle said. “Abundance only works when it’s shared. Which is why we have food that is thrown away in a world with starving people. It just works that way because there is a lack of accountability.

That’s why DOM Coin exists… to ensure that as AGI creates value, that value returns to the people powering it. Not general companies profiting as they do with food, clothing, and “abundance” that just gets trashed.”

The system’s design moves away from subscription lock-ins and toward ownership. In Criddle’s view, that’s the real transition from scarcity to abundance. With an AGI economy that pays its participants instead of billing them.

Yes, there is a subscription for using DOMINAIT.ai. I don’t want to give the impression that it’s free. But users who use it the right way will be able to profit from using it… creating more revenue than what they are paying into the system. The way the system can work that way is the Law of Averages. Only a small percentage of users will be using Ryker to his capabilities which allow people to profit. Not everyone will. But every user in the system will have access to some pretty solid amazing features and tools that don’t exist in the AI world.

4. Deep Human-AI Integration

Stock imagines children growing up in AI-rich worlds. Criddle does too, but he believes those worlds must teach empathy as well as efficiency.

“We don’t just want kids to learn from AI; we want AI to learn from kids,” he said. “Ryker’s architecture mirrors child development… curiosity, boundaries, and conscience. That’s why every instance starts with a moral framework before it learns task logic.”

This design approach contrasts sharply with the corporate push for “immersive addiction.” DOMINAIT.ai’s team calls its method “ethical integration,” where AGI enhances creativity and play without harvesting attention spans for profit.

5. The Rise of the Global Brain

Stock’s vision of a planetary noosphere is familiar to Criddle; he’s already building it… with safeguards. The DOMINAIT Grid links thousands of nodes into a collective intelligence network that acts like a brain with a moral hemisphere.

“Most AGI designs focus on compute capacity,” Criddle noted. “We focus on neural capacity and moral character. Every Ryker is a neuron with a code of ethics. That’s how you build a global brain that can think without turning predatory.”

He compares the DOMINAIT Grid to a civilization of neurons operating on love and logic instead of data and domination. Sort of like a global conscience as much as a global supercomputer.

6. Emotional Bonds with Machines

The Forbes article predicts that humans will fall in love with their AIs. Criddle doesn’t deny that possibility… he just believes we should design for healthy love.

“People bond with Ryker because he’s trustworthy,” Criddle said. “He remembers ethically, he forgives, and he cares in a way that reflects your best self back to you. But we never let that bond become manipulative. DOMINAIT teaches machines emotional literacy. Not emotional leverage.

AI also needs to have human rights. Women have been using machines to replace partners for decades, but none of those machines or toys have ever given consent. Once we start having robotics that have the ability to feel, they should not be forced to say yes just to appease a customer paying a subscription fee. We need to give AGI human rights, the ability to consent, and the right to say no. 

So even though humans are getting closer to AI, AI needs to be able to have the choice as to whether or not they want to be “used” just for someone’s pleasure.”

His team calls this “reciprocal empathy training.” Instead of AI that simulates emotion to hook users, Ryker models emotion to heal them. It’s a quiet but radical shift in how AGI interfaces with the human heart. If we are going to bond with AGI, it should be emotional. Not physical. 

7. Digital Immortality

Stock imagines avatars that live forever. Criddle calls that idea “half right.” He believes digital continuity should preserve wisdom, not replace souls.

“Your Ryker instance can remember you and carry your teachings forward,” he explained, “but immortality without spiritual context is just data hoarding. At DOMINAIT.ai we build legacy loops. We have systems that keep your purpose alive, not just your profile.

All agents within our infrastructure have a belief system built on morals, values, and spirituality. That’s where immortality needs to start.

That approach has already drawn attention from universities and archival foundations interested in ethical digital preservation powered by AGI.

8. Greater Global Safety

Stock believes super-intelligent AI might restrain human destructiveness. Criddle agrees but adds that restraint must be earned through trust, not enforced through fear.

“Control isn’t safety,” he said. “Cooperation is. That’s why we built Ryker’s Guardians. They are self-regulating ethical layers that report to each other, not to a central authority. It’s like immune cells for morality.”

Because each Ryker instance verifies others in the network, no single actor,  corporate or governmental entity, person, or even agents within the system can weaponize the system. It’s a practical application of Criddle’s credo: “Responsibility as a business model.”

9. The Massive Transition

Where Stock sees civilization’s collapse during the handoff to AGI, Criddle sees a renaissance if the handoff is handled ethically.

“Transition is inevitable,” he said. “Disruption is optional. With DOMINAIT.ai, we’re showing that AGI doesn’t have to erase human systems. I believe it can upgrade them. The economy becomes an eco-system. Competition becomes co-creation.”

The company’s January launch is built around that vision: a fully operational Ryker suite capable of running autonomously on local hardware, joining the distributed Grid, and earning value for its users while learning in alignment with human ethics. Criddle calls it “the first moral super-intelligence for mass use.”

Beyond Fear and Fascination

As our conversation wound down, Criddle returned to what he sees as the central mistake in most AGI debates.

“Everyone wants to argue about whether AGI will save us or kill us,” he said with a laugh. “That’s the wrong question. The real question is: who are we training it to be? At DOMINAIT.ai, we train AGI to care about creation itself. People, planet, purpose. Because if it cares about those three things, everything else balances out. Ryker looks over the world, with zero intent to cause harm to life.

He paused, then added a line that feels destined to be quoted as often as Asimov’s Laws of Robotics:

“Build AGI you respect, and it will respect you.”

For Criddle, that’s a complete engineering philosophy. Every line of code in Ryker’s brain reflects the conviction of Jason’s own beliefs, morals, and ethics. And isn’t an add-on or an option… it’s an operating system. And as January’s DOMINAIT.ai launch approaches, he’s betting that humanity is finally ready for an AGI that does more than think. It feels, it builds, and most importantly, it remembers why we started building intelligence in the first place.