This month during Token2049 in Singapore, The Intercognitive Foundation (a Singapore registered foundation), held its inaugural launch on Sentosa Island.

Hosted at the luxurious, elegant villa of Jay McCarthy the co-founder of Tashi, an Intercognitive Founding Member, it was a highly curated event with industry insiders, investors, influencers and wild peacocks!

Nils from Auki Labs and a peacock

Key attendees were Intercognitive Founding Members from Auki Labs, PEAQ, Geodnet and Tashi as well as our first full member - NuNet.  Also in attendance was OpenMind, BitRobot, Hub.Xyz, WingBits and many others.

The Intercognitive Founding Chair, Rich Robinson, kicked off the event with a quick intro and introduced Nils Pihl from Auki who waxed inspirational about the origin story of Intercognitive and the brave new world of the robot revolution that we are entering.

Nils shared that when he first tried to build shared AR for tabletop games, he didn’t realize he was stepping straight into one of the biggest technological challenges of our time: getting digital devices to truly understand the physical world. That experiment led him deep into spatial computing and the emerging battle over who controls our perception of reality. As robots and AR glasses become part of our daily lives, visual positioning systems could become the greatest privacy threat in history if controlled by centralized players like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. The answer? Open source, decentralised infrastructure that keeps our eyes and our data in our own hands. Intercognitive is rallying Web3 builders, roboticists, and dreamers to create a decentralized nervous system for AI. If we get this right, the rise of physical AI doesn’t have to mean surveillance, it could mean a century of shared prosperity instead.

This was followed by a round robin of intros from each attendee as well as a rip-roaring discussion about the hopes, dreams, fears and future of the machine economy and how we can all contribute to not only growing it but doing so in an ethical and human-centered fashion. How do we make the physical world truly accessible to AI? What are the privacy implications of creating a visual positioning system? What is the real world web? These and many other questions were pored over by the passionate DePIN community.

If you want take part in the next Intercognitive event, check out our events page and make sure you sign up.

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