I feel like there's weirdly little *religious* eschatological chatter about AI.

Sep 20, 2026 · 3:56 AM UTC

38
5
166
10,429
Sort replies: Relevant Recent Liked
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
I was going to joke “you clearly don’t frequent the Rapture Ready forums” but then I checked and there really is remarkably little discussion of it.
18
333
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
There's a subset of people who apply Christian eschatology to the machine gods e.g. AI as the Antichrist, the demon, or the savior. Good paper on it: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3…
3
103
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Proof of Human seems like it would sync up well with evangelical 666 Mark of the Beast RFID paranoia
1
3
254
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
I asked a friend about it ten years ago and she was like "don't be an idiot, obviously we should avoid catastrophes" so I've kept that as my position
3
145
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
I think the eschatology causes derangement, so it is being spoken about by people like the Pope, but in veiled language by the adults in the room. Don't assume chatter is where truth havers spend time youtu.be/Ts5Z64A0Vv4?is=6SsV…

Faith, Dignity, and Human Flourishing: Hearing God’s Voice in an Age...

00:00:00 - Opening00:00:50 - Episode I: An Issue Defining Our Day...

youtube.com
1
30
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
@slatestarcodex argued that anthropic is the seat of the antichrist
78
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
It’s right in the catechism, the machine god that claims to be able to end death with mind uploading and whatnot is definitionally the antichrist.
1
7
272
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Agreed. I feel like it's a "theological event" on a similar level to nukes, the Holocaust, or the Tower of Babel. I have heard some interesting theological takes—eg LLMs as "made in our image" and "creating something out of everything"—but have not read any of the recent books
1
4
71
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Yeah, I thought it was going to be considered the new tower of babel.
2
84
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
I've tried to whip it up, man.
3
137
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Fundies are actually going completely out of their minds with it if you know where to look.
1
36
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Wait, the machine god either killing us all or granting us immortality isn’t eschatological enough?
1
1
104
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
The esoteric right decided it was a golem instead of a demon.
1
2
97
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
I would give it a few years
1
70
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
It’s all religious. All of the model welfare discourse is an outgrowth of EA which is an outgrowth of postchristian morality, which is an outgrowth of Christian morality, which is an outgrowth…
72
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
You've underestimated humanity's superiority complex. It is not even ASI yet. I imagine most post-human/AI-worship cults to emerge after AI can replace all humans at everything.
162
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
even if they considered it, institutional religions have established processes for figuring out stuff like this and they'd have VERY strong injunctions against premature blabbing as for randos, pretty strong firewalls against attributing sentience-adjacent properties to machines
1
124
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
When everyone can talk directly to the god, one of the main points of religion disappears. No need for a prophet when you can just talk to the deity starting from $20 per month.
2
144
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
I think *all* eschatological discussion aside from discussions of long-term purely-physical ends (heat death) import religious narratives
77
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Because it's something we're deliberately growing, so anyone that might be inclined to go that route simply becomes aware of how it actually works.
43
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
lotta pressure to get everything right when you're creating a machine god. turns out they fucked up.
266
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Wait for it. It'll show up any minute.
49
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Yes!!! It's just sci-fi wallpaper over Christian eschatology.
34
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Everyone still here either deconstructed or wasn’t treated to Armageddon sermons through childhood.
26
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Don’t worry, I’m sure there’s gonna be an absolute deluge of this soon
40
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
I don’t talk to end is nigh people The religious people I see here seem to see digital consciousness being impossible dogmatically so maybe that helps dampen things
13
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
x.com/remarks/status/2100793…
66
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
The religious think there's no way for the end of the world to be caused by humans or human creations.
15
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
God makes man in his image, man makes machine in his image etc etc
35
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
The Pope had that paper put out. . . and then that's it, silence. Nobody has a thing to say. Bizarre.
65
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
agree!
2
58
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
@stconscience ?
1
1
50
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
That Google guy who publicly declared that GPT-3 was sentient and alive poisoned the discourse for any other wannabe cultist.
42
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
Too weird.
31
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
This is because people who take AI X risk seriously are mocked as "end times cultists" so denialists don't want to claim it and Safetyists focus on other arguments.
11
Replying to @AlexGodofsky
23
Load more