The Dark Corners: "Supreme Gentlemen"

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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(PART 2/2) ENCORE PRESENTATION In April of 2018, Alek Minassian sits in a Toronto police station after using a van to kill eleven people. Now, investigators are trying to figure out who he is, and why he did this. Minassian is happy to talk about it all. What he spins is a tale years in the making, winding himself into the very fabric of what he calls the beta uprising...the incel revolution. Who are the incels? What do they want? How much of a threat are they today? DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz explores all these questions, and concludes the story of the the 2018 Toronto Van Attack. JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.1	Some of the scientists who helped build AI are now sounding the alarm.
0:43.6	I was selling AI as a great thing for decades, and I was wrong. I was wrong.
0:52.3	There is a longer term existential threat that will arise when we create digital beings that are more intelligent than ourselves.
0:59.8	We have no idea whether we can stay in control.
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1:06.6	I've always believed that it's going to be the most important invention that humanity will ever make.
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