"Is Antichrist going to be a person or is Antichrist going to be a machine? Is Antichrist going to be a being that we create, or that comes through the things that we have created? That's the question. I think people like Peter Thiel are involved in building something which is becoming quite openly evil, I think, becoming quite openly destructive of human flourishing, destructive of nature, destructive of our relationships, destructive in all the ways that we've talked about."
"I mean, the promise of Antichrist in the Christian story is that he or it is a great prophet which imitates Christ. Every religious believer thinks this is the new prophet who's come to unite a world which is crumbling. That's the promise that technology is giving us at the moment. That's the promise that we're being openly given by the people who are creating these great superhuman intelligences, these great beyond-human minds that they're trying to build."
Technology is killing people physically and spiritually, raising the question whether Antichrist will be a person or a machine created by humans or emerging through creations. Wealthy technologists are building systems tied to weapons and surveillance that erode human flourishing, nature, and relationships. The technological system promises a unifying, rational, beyond-human intelligence that will solve problems and overcome human passions. That promise resembles the Antichrist narrative of a prophet imitating Christ to unite a crumbling world. Silicon Valley discourse openly frames the construction of superhuman intelligences as a source of global unity and solutions.
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