This Thiel fluffing is just blatant now.
Peter Thiel predicted AI Superintelligence could cause Armageddon - He was RIGHT 😱
“The way the Antichrist would take over the world is you talk about Armageddon nonstop. You talk about existential risk nonstop.”
In his June 2025 conversation with Ross Douthat, Thiel argued the Antichrist would not seize power by inventing a doomsday machine. People are already too frightened of that. The more likely path, he said, is constant talk of nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and AI extinction, followed by a demand for one world government strong enough to “stop science.”
“The default political solution people have for all these existential risks is one world governance,” Thiel said. “We need global compute governance. We need a one-world government to control all the computers.”
He contrasted the old image of an evil scientist with today’s politics: “In the 17th century I can imagine a Dr. Strangelove type taking over the world. In our world, it’s far more likely to be Greta Thunberg.”
Thiel’s point was not that activists are the Antichrist. It was that fear of Armageddon can become the excuse for total control. Watch the clip and decide whether that warning still holds. What do you think is the greater danger right now: runaway technology, or the power we hand over to stop it?