Joe Allen

And the Antichrist is a figure that comes in the name of peace and safety or peace and security.

and that the fears of AI or nukes or bioweapons will be used to position this Antichrist and give him rule over the planet.

Now, Thiel, I think, himself has a bit of an ironic sneer when he presents this, but what it really does, I think, Steve, is it puts a kind of veil over what's actually happening.

It doesn't have to be the entire world

going up in flames due to nuclear war and it doesn't have to be every single human on earth turned into a nanobot swarm as the AI begins to eat the entire biosphere.

What we know is that these products, these algorithms, these AI apps are put out

and used in a predatory fashion to hook children, to hook adults.

We know that they are taking all of that data and using it for their own purposes, whether it be advertising or behavioral manipulation, or to train the next run of AI.

So to me, the entire argument that Peter Thiel's making is just a distraction.

He might as well just go ahead and trademark Antichrist to get it out of the way.

The real antichrist, I think, is inside the hearts of every person on earth.

And the real antichrist is expressed, most obviously, by predatory tech companies or any kind of predatory person in power who is obviously running roughshod over the people in America.

But really, Steve, you think about this in a global context.

These people are putting their tentacles into everything.

as many people as they possibly can across the entire world.

If there's anything deserving of the label Antichrist, I think that's probably it.

Well, you know, Steve, if you had asked the bot, is Donald Trump a good president?

Or probably if you asked it, is Steve Bannon a good guy?

Immediately, the safety layers would kick in and it would begin to give you some sort of generic sort of,

libbed rainbow version of whatever it had in its training data.