Peter Thiel

One of the most sophisticated men in America taking ancient prophecies seriously.

Peter Thiel on Uncommon Knowledge Now.

I think it was Ivan Illich who said that in the time before Christ, there were many forerunners to Christ.

In the time after Christ, there will be many forerunners of the Antichrist.

So in some sense, it's a type.

So Nero was a type of the Antichrist.

Or maybe Napoleon was a type of the Antichrist.

It's sort of a...

You know, it's someone who aspires for world domination to create, you know, the creation of this sort of one world state.

In some ways, Alexander the Great was sort of a pre-Christ prototype of the anti-crisis, very parallel.

You can think of it as a system, you know, where maybe communism is a one-world system.

It's sort of the final dictator of the one-world statement.

I worry a lot about the unknowns.

I don't think we can predict everything for sure, but precisely because of that, we're trying to predict everything we can.

We're thinking about the economic impacts of AI.

We're thinking about the misuse.

We're thinking about losing control of the model.

But for the first time in history, we can actually imagine human beings destroying the world.

Now also,

We have the mechanisms that would make world government, a gigantic global surveillance state, is plausible.