Existential dangers will current themselves within the type of nuclear battle, environmental catastrophe, dangerously engineered bioweapons and even autonomous killer robots guided by AI.
As people race towards a final battle—the Armageddon—a one-world authorities will type, promising peace and security. In Thiel’s reckoning, this totalitarian authoritarian regime, with actual enamel and actual energy, would be the coming of the modern-day Antichrist, a determine outlined in Christian teachings as the non-public opponent of God who will seem earlier than the world ends…
In line with a overview of his previous lectures, Thiel attracts on a principle that the Antichrist might be a person or entity that’s extremely charismatic however talks repeatedly concerning the finish of the world, thereby convincing society to provide it the facility wanted to control the existential dangers from science and know-how.