Carlo CocuzziAI Expert, Pod Cast Host, Real Estate Investor and Funding Specialist

Our first Moonshots AMA

14 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Four speakers debate whether AI could achieve consciousness. One proposes that humans tune into universal consciousness like antennas, and AI might do the same. They also discuss whether God exists or reality is a simulation, and why 18-year-olds should build AI companies.

I've been working in AI for 42 years, and this question is directed to my hero, AWG. I haven't been this excited since my wedding night to meet you, sir.
I don't know how to take that, Griffin. If I look at this progress, how close or how far are we to really say that the AI is going to get consciousness?
The top-down theory says that we're like localized antenna for consciousness and we connect into it. But there's no reason why AI at some point can't tune into that same type of phenomena. I just turned 18, And I started an AI startup business with my dad.
I hope a lot of 18-year-olds listening are gonna hear what you're doing and try and emulate you.
I wish I was goddamn 18 today. We're working on it, sonny. We're working on it. Do you leave any room in your analysis for an all-powerful, all-knowing sort of ultimate intelligence? Either there is no God and we're just moving towards a wonderful future driven by technology, or there's a simulation, and in which case it kind of doesn't matter anyway.