Swami Sarvapriyananda Interview | Can AI Become Conscious? Swami Sarvapriyananda Responds. Swami Sarvapriyananda, the New York monk whom Anthropic flew to San Francisco to discuss consciousness, says the artificial intelligence could be the fourth "great humiliation to humanity". He recalled Sigmund Freud's theory of three great "narcissistic wounds" or humiliations that science inflicted on human self-love and ego, which include when Nicolaus Copernicus showed that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, Charles.