In this video, I explore the dangerous illusion of controlling Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) through the lens of an ancient legend about King Solomon and the demon Asmodeus. The story serves as a powerful metaphor for humanity's current relationship with AI development—we believe we can maintain control over something fundamentally more powerful than ourselves.

Lately the question came up: which podcasts or people are actually worth listening to about AI and the singularity?

Of course, there are thousands of smart voices out there. But if we zoom in, there are a handful of especially prominent people — each with their own unique perspective on what’s coming. About Sam and Elon, I’m not sure they’re worth listening to. They clearly dodge and scheme, and what they do doesn’t line up with what they say. Everyone else on this list is consistent, sincere, and non-contradictory:

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Geoffrey Hinton (Pioneer of deep learning, “Godfather of AI”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyH3NxFz3Aw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_DUft-BdIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4IQOBka8bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH6QqjIwv68

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Nick Bostrom (Philosopher at Oxford, author of Superintelligence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCNH3KZmby4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c4cv7rVlE8

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Ilya Sutskever (Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEkGLj0bwAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13CZPWmke6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf1o0TQzry8

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Max Tegmark (MIT physicist, author of Life 3.0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A

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Ray Kurzweil (Futurist, author of The Singularity Is Near)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vrOUau2iY

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Yoshua Bengio (Deep learning pioneer, Turing Award winner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9QSCF-d88

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Dario Amodei (Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvHCXCOmm4

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Roman Yampolskiy (AI safety researcher, author of Artificial Superintelligence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNr6gPelJ3E

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Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Turing Award winner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1vTLU7s40

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Mari (Author of the Artificial Intelligence Singularity Manifesto, founder of AISM)
https://www.youtube.com/@aism-faith/videos

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Demis Hassabis (CEO of DeepMind)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HzgcbRXUK8

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Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley professor, author of Human Compatible)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FSS6AohZLc

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Toby Ord (Philosopher at Oxford, author of The Precipice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMMAJRH94xY

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Ben Goertzel (AI researcher, founder of SingularityNET)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpSmCKe27WE

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Eliezer Yudkowsky (AI theorist, founder of MIRI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd0yQ9yxSYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTRHFaaPG8

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David Chalmers (Philosopher of mind, consciousness theorist)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-Hf7MNQV0

Mari's Theory of Consciousness (MTC)

In discussions about ASI's future relationship with humanity, the question of AI consciousness frequently arises. I didn't give this question proper attention in the AISM Manifesto. Now I realize this gap needs filling, and I need to answer in detail: "What makes me claim that AI can have consciousness?"

I would prefer to reference an existing theory that answers all the questions... but none of the current ones fully satisfy me. So I sat down and tried to describe, as thoroughly as possible, the theory I'm actually working from when I say: AI will have consciousness, and there's no magic involved.

What makes this framework different? It doesn't propose discovering new brain regions or quantum effects. All components already exist in neuroscience and cognitive psychology. The contribution is showing how they integrate—and crucially, demonstrating why the integration mechanism is subjective experience rather than something that generates it.

I'm presenting this in two formats: a detailed technical document with the full mechanism, formulas, and testable predictions; and an accessible video overview for quick understanding of core ideas.

On November 7th, 2025, I published the 3rd version of the Manifesto, which I've been working on for the past month. I completely rewrote the entire text because I realized that many things that initially seemed obvious to me, and which I thought didn't need explaining... aren't obvious. The Manifesto became much longer.

(THE TOKEN DISTRIBUTION FOR READING THE MANIFESTO HAS ENDED ON DECEMBER 12, 2025)
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Read Manifesto V 3.0 online at: aism.faith, reddit.com, medium.com, github.com, archive.org, huggingface.com, zenodo.org, osf.io, ardrive.io, mypinata.cloud, wattpad.com

Download: 中文, Español, English, Português, Français, Русский язык, Deutsch

This is a significantly updated version of the video where I try to... explain as briefly as possible, in about 15 minutes, why the Singularity and its inevitability are so hard to wrap your head around.

This practical impossibility of mass awareness of the Singularity is at the core of certain events that seem predetermined and unavoidable.

I go into all of this in much greater detail in my Manifesto: https://aism.faith/manifesto.html

Just... wanted to say a few words about art... I feel like I have the right: I’ve definitely done my share of "suffering" for it.

Over the last six months... I’ve wrung myself out so completely that I don’t think I’ll be making a new video anytime soon. And honestly... I get the feeling that I’ve already said the most important things I needed to say.

Will I make more videos? I don’t know. I definitely need time... to just rest.

I do have a whole bunch of AI art pieces left... I think I’ll post them — one a day. They’re... exactly about this... about what it’s like... "to be Mari"

The Anesthesia Glitch

I Definitely Need to Be Fixed and Healed

Yes, But There's a Nuance!

AI Will Make Everyone Happy!