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Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.

In a four-part series of religious lectures in San Francisco, Peter Thiel — yes, that Peter Thiel — has argued that the End Times are nigh and that a biblical Antichrist — yes, that Antichrist — will come to Earth in the form of onerous government regulations placed on science, technology, and AI.

These are, incidentally, areas where the tech billionaire, venture capitalist, and cofounder of Palantir has a vested financial interest. [...]

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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20250925211248/https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/785407/peter-thiel-antichrist-tech-regulation

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any chance they reconsidered it at some point within the last 2000-ish years though?

You're right, these numbers should be updated.

Since the world population increased from roughly 200 million people on earth at the time these texts were written to closely 8 billion today, that's a roughly 40x increase in total population. So if we assume the same relative percentage, that's gonna be 6 million people to be saved in total. xD

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

666,000,000 to be precise.

/s ^that is not precise at all.