Why not? By definition, ASI will have God-like intelligence. It may actually deliver on a lot of the promises of religion: immortality and an end to work, taxes, disease.
There was a 'Church of AI' but it shutdown: Anthony Levandowski closes his Church of AI https://techcrunch.com/2021/02...
Related is Roko's basilisk, kind of like a threat from the future:

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that there could be an artificial superintelligence in the future that, while otherwise benevolent, would punish anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You can vote for UBI, Sovereign wealth funds, State Owned AGI, even free food: https://www.genolve.com/design...
But first you need to make sure you can continue to even vote. Trump is doing all the things Erdoan, Putin and Orban did: vote full ticket Democrat next November.

They 'say' it was related to a Charlie Kirk comment but in fact the FCC threatened to withdraw ABC's broadcast licenses unless they got rid of Kimmel. This straight out of the dictator's playbook to control the media. The comedians will be gone well before AI replaces them. https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/w...

Ark 1 went there, yeah 3rd season coming in 2026: https://youtu.be/7suLZQTejaA?s...

In the current skewed capitalist system, Taylor Swift accounted for 1.79% of the entire music market in 2023. https://www.reddit.com/r/Taylo...
Now add in a few hundred more superstars and you have the typical case where 1% of the people get 99% of the wealth. Meanwhile the vast majority of authors, musicians, sport players, artists, etc. scrape by on peanuts. Instead of fighting for your peanuts, why not fight to ensure AI ushers in a post-scarcity future?

Why bring up human rights violations from 2015 when a genocide is on-going in Gaza and on the very day Israel goes to a whole new low: bombing a meeting in Qatar that was to discuss Trump's peace proposal:

Turkiye’s Foreign Ministry has condemned Israel’s strike on Qatar, saying it shows that Israel is not interested in an agreement to end the war. “The targeting of the Hamas negotiating delegation while ceasefire talks continue shows that Israel does not aim to reach peace, but rather continue the war,” the ministry said in a statement. “This situation is clear proof that Israel has adopted its expansionist politics in the region and terrorism as a state policy.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news...

Let's look at blue collar example. An star engineer worked to make a toll road. He was paid a good wage to make it and his agent also negotiated to get 1% of each car's toll payment.

In this sense: it is really a full-time job to invest with skill and knowledge and if you hit a big bet it can make your daytime work seem like a waste of time, you can make more doing investing full time. We are talking moving well past buy and hold mutual funds into complex things like individual stock research, currency trades, commodities and options.

Then, in 2019, Jair Bolsonaro came into power. He stripped enforcement measures, cut spending for science and environmental agencies, fired environmental experts, and pushed to weaken Indigenous land rights, among other activities largely in support of the agribusiness industry.

https://www.vox.com/down-to-ea...
Brazil was smart enough to get rid of him, USA your same chance is in Nov 2026 and might be your one and only chance

I see the US more heading for AI dystopia than utopia. It is the default path: don't change anything about the economic system and you will automatically get dystopia as people one-by-one loose their jobs to AI and robots. An enlightened country (or a new country) on the other hand would use AI and robots to provide all citizens free shelter, food, healthcare and education.

The US plan to maintain hegemony is called Strategic Sequencing. First take out Russia, then Iran and finally go for China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Pay attention if Iran is again attacked, how it will appear to be a completely justified attack by the West.

The plebeians suspect that scarcity is being artificially enforced to juice profits. Complaining about 'overcapacity' only confirms this is the case. Now with AI and robots coming don't be hoodwinked into thinking overcapacity is a problem; instead ask: What if economics is wrong about scarcity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Please go to TFA and you will find benchmark after benchmark where the model is improving significantly over the previous model. Including 42% on Humanity's Last Exam (notably less then Grok though Grok did use 4 models in parallel). Look how that benchmark was designed to trip up the models:

The questions were crowdsourced from subject matter experts from various institutions across the world.[3][4] The questions were first filtered by the leading AI models; if the models failed to answer the question or did worse than random guessing on the multiple-choice questions, they were reviewed by human experts in two rounds and approved for inclusion in the dataset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How tough are those questions? You could literally spend the rest of your life trying to answer a single question from that exam

This guy says yes, they are the people watching you (or could be tasked to watch you exactly like Samaritan in 'Person of Interest'): Palantir and the Conspiracy to Own Everything: The Largest Heist in History https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yet Thiel was recently in the ALL-IN podcast and seemed fairly normal (for a tech bro) , though he supported Trump in 2016 he stayed out of the 2024 elections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cracks are forming in the attractive girls union: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...