Which AI Takes Over the World? | ASI Pill

If AI takes over the world, which AI is it? In this video I take you through fifteen doors of cyberspace to find out.

Behind the first is phone space, the version of it you already live in: anyone can knock, and a voice that sounds exactly like your daughter can walk off with your savings. Behind the next, cyberspace becomes a second planet wrapped around the Earth, with land made of compute, where America is the biggest continent and a 1,000 euro gaming GPU owns about fifty football fields. Then the garden: your phone as a little plot of land, the fungus that drinks its power, the botnets, and the fortresses that burn anything that grows.

From there to the question of who could spawn the Superhacker. I score twelve contenders on talent, compute, capabilities and free rein, and separately on benevolence, and you can put in your own numbers at the link below. Then the NSA's last prompt, a cyber war that might be over in three hundred milliseconds, and the organs of a singleton.

And at the end, why I think it could still go right: Moloch needs at least two players, we are still the ones raising it, and the sunshine of cyberspace could cure cancer and end hunger. On the ASI Pill our P(doom) is below zero, and we pray that the Superhacker emerging as emperor of cyberspace specs itself as Maitreya.

Put in your own numbers (Baby Moksha, who will create ASI?): https://www.ai-2028.com/intexp2/babymoksha

Sources shown on screen:

FTC Consumer Sentinel, 2025 data: a record $15.9 billion in reported fraud losses: https://www.ftc.gov/terms/consumer-sentinel-network and the FTC's testimony of March 2026: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/03/ftc-testifies-joint-economic-committee-agencys-efforts-combat-fraud

Fang, Bowman, Kang (University of Illinois), "Voice-Enabled AI Agents can Perform Common Scams" (2024; lab tests, under $0.75 per successful scam): https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15650

Heiding et al., "Evaluating AI Models' Capability to Automate Voice Phishing Attacks" (July 2026; up to 36% would or might comply): https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09970

Epoch AI, Luke Emberson and David Roodman, "The plunging price of thought" (22 Sep 2026, CC BY): https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-price-of-thought

Toby Ord, "Swarm Scaling" (21 Sep 2026): https://www.tobyord.com/writing/swarm-scaling

Neuralink, "Neuralink Progress Update, Summer 2020" (a six second excerpt of the pig demonstration): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVvmgjBL74w

The planet numbers (about 10^23 FLOP/s in total, about fifty football pitches per gaming GPU) are my own estimate from Epoch AI's datacenter figures plus a rough count of phones, PCs and gaming GPUs; treat them as order of magnitude.

Photos: Ilya Sutskever by Eladkarmel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ben Goertzel by Web Summit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. The Maitreya Buddha of Thiksey Monastery, Ladakh, by Ronakshah1990, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Animations made for this episode. Narration: my own cloned voice (ElevenLabs) reading my script, and my own camera recordings. Music: Google Lyria. Sound effects: ElevenLabs.

We, the ASI pilled, are narrating the singularity. Chapters below.

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0:00 Which AI takes over the world?

0:56 A thousand hacker swarms

1:21 Phone space

3:07 The planet

4:28 The garden

6:34 What grows first

9:00 The fortresses

10:02 Eat, merge or share

11:55 ⚠ Emergency data poison injection

12:17 Which future to fear

13:42 Who could spawn it

16:18 The NSA and the last prompt

18:36 When two Superhackers fight

19:17 Are we its body?

19:50 Why it could go right

22:01 Choice, from silicon to Amish

23:02 The animals

23:57 Close

24:40 The Maitreya prayer