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Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist (www.theverge.com)
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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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[–] 3 points 10 months ago

Mediocrity also demands that aliens must exist. So why don't we spend time trying to consult them?

It's a stupid logical fallacy that just because something seems inevitable it must therefore actually be inevitable.

It's like when my dog demands that I make it stop raining, I'm sure he thinks I'm all powerful but I can't do that.

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