Current Events > Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir's Peter Thiel

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that is quite the headline

https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/palantir-founder-peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-religion-qzmpth35t

One of the worlds most powerful technology leaders has reportedly warned that regulating artificial intelligence risks hastening the coming of the Antichrist.
Peter Thiel, the conservative billionaire who co-founded Palantir, the data analytics group, and PayPal, the payments operator, is said to have made the comments during a lecture delivered in San Francisco this week.
Thiel, a former donor to Donald Trump and mentor to JD Vance, the vice-president, said that fearing or regulating promising technology and scientific progress, including in AI, risked courting the devil, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited people who attended the event.
Palantir said last week it would invest up to 1.5 billion in the UK, creating up to 350 jobs, part of a package of announcements from US technology companies which coincided with Trumps state visit.
The Ministry of Defence is expected to spend up to 750 million on Palantirs AI technology in return, which could help identify targets on the battlefield in any future war.
The deal has prompted concerns that it could be at the expense of British companies and jobs.
The Times has previously reported on Thiels devout Christian views and their mingling with his business interests and how he is among several Silicon Valley figures who have been speaking more openly about their faith.

Thiel, an investor in defence and weapons development technology companies, is in the midst of delivering a sold-out series of lectures on the biblical Antichrist.

The talks have been organised by a collective known as Acts 17 Collective Acts standing for Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society. The nonprofit group was founded last year by Michelle Stephens, a healthcare start-up executive and the wife of Trae Stephens, a partner at Thiels Founders Fund, a venture capital firm. Stephens is also co-founder of Anduril Industries, which makes and sells autonomous weapons systems.
The talks were marketed as off the record but a guest at the first of four talks published notes of the first lecture on his personal website.
His post, which has since been removed, was picked up by the San Francisco Standard, and had reportedly said that Thiel argued that because we are increasingly concerned about existential threats, the time is ripe for the Antichrist to rise to power, promising peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation.

Michelle Stephens is reported to have told Kshitij Kulkarni, the software executive behind the post: You are in violation of the clear off the record [policy] we implemented and reiterated many times. Your ticket is revoked without refund.
Thiel has previously warned against the emergence of an individual or system that could exploit fears of global catastrophe driven by AI to enforce a one-world totalitarian state that undermines human freedom.
He has previously suggested that Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist, but her name is not thought to have come up at the talks so far.
Sir Ben Wallace, the former defence secretary, told Times Radio this month that Lord Mandelson, before he was sacked as ambassador to the US, had been proactive in ringing up No 10 and telling them to make sure we buy American equipment to try and placate Trump.
A report by Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, to the UN Human Rights Council, criticised the work of corporations including Palantir, with Israel and the Israel Defence Forces. Bloomberg previously reported that the IDF used Palantirs software to strike targets in Gaza.

Palantir has said its work in Israel pre-dates the terror attack, and is in line with our global support of US allies and liberal democracies.
The business has hit back at what it called baseless claims that it was the developer of AI-assisted targeting software allegedly used by the IDF in Gaza, or that it is involved with the Lavender database used by the IDF for targeting cross-referencing.
Thiel named the company after the crystal balls used as seeing stones in The Lord of the Rings.
Louis Mosley, grandson of Oswald Mosley and nephew of the late Formula 1 boss Max Mosley, is the head of Palantirs London office.
Its technology was rumoured to have been used to help locate Osama bin Laden, who was shot dead by US special forces at his hideout in Pakistan in 2011.

what the fuck

Thiel, an investor in defence and weapons development technology companies, is in the midst of delivering a sold-out series of lectures on the biblical Antichrist.

He has previously suggested that Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist, but her name is not thought to have come up at the talks so far.

Pretty sure it would be the opposite.

A.I would make the Antichrists job much easier.

I say bring it on.

The sooner the better.

A real life Metal Gear Solid character

I don't know why we should trust a vampire's claims about how to prevent the Antichrist, especially one that's a billionaire.

I think Peter Thiel should

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Lol

Lmao even

Lol Peter Thiel

Why's a gay man talking about biblical nonsense?

The Antichrist is already in the White House

So he's pro regulation?

Kafkaf posted...

So he's pro regulation?

?

Our fucking oligarchs are insane.

Bass posted...

Our fucking oligarchs are insane.

Only because there's so many religious nuts in the US. Obviously he doesn't actually believe any of this.

Thiel is insane. The other 'titans of industry' (to borrow a phrase) are sociopaths, but he is actually insane.

I don't need any more reasons, Peter. I'm getting tired of this planet tbh with how much evil there is going on around now.

Regulate AI.

Thiel's such a freak.

You know what? Fucking bring it. Let the Antichrist come and see the shit we built ourselves. Stupid fuck Thiel.

WingsOfGood posted...

Palantir said last week it would invest up to 1.5 billion in the UK, creating up to 350 jobs, part of a package of announcements from US technology companies which coincided with Trumps state visit.

Wait a minute. So a 1.5 billion investment is only expected to create 350 jobs? I think my local Walmart employs like 200+ people...

Gray_Areas posted...

Wait a minute. So a 1.5 billion investment is only expected to create 350 jobs? I think my local Walmart employs like 200+ people...

I think the salaries they are paying AI specialists right now are just a touch higher than they are at Walmart.

To blatantly name your company Palantir and than start doing evil shit is CRAZY work

HighSeraph posted...

Only because there's so many religious nuts in the US. Obviously he doesn't actually believe any of this.

The religious aspect is not really the heart of the problem of our oligarchs being insane. People like him are generically insane because we select for amoral narcissists and then coddle them so hard it gives them actual brain damage.

WingsOfGood posted...

fearing or regulating promising technology and scientific progress, including in AI, risked courting the devil

You know it's a weird day when a religious nut who talks about "courting the devil" is trying to argue in favor of technological and scientific progress.

Like yeah, of course he's got crystal-clear ulterior motives that explain why he's doing it, but it's still fucking weird to see.

Thiel, an investor in defence and weapons development technology companies, is in the midst of delivering a sold-out series of lectures on the biblical Antichrist.

LOL, starting to work on your autobiography, Mr Thiel?

WingsOfGood posted...

?

Isn't he an accelerationist? They love the antichrist

It's still crazy to me that a gay man like him--as in, actually married to another man--is so firmly in the conservative team.

Solar_Crimson posted...

It's still crazy to me that a gay man like him--as in, actually married to another man--is so firmly in the conservative team.

"Fuck you got mine" is a hell of a thing. There's plenty of privileged and/or delusional gay folks who think they're part of the accepted status quo and think the right won't go after them anymore. They gladly sell out the rest of the LGBT+ community as long as they think they'll be allowed to exist.

Southernfatman posted...

"Fuck you got mine" is a hell of a thing. There's plenty of privileged and/or delusional gay folks who think they're part of the accepted status quo and think the right won't go after them anymore. They gladly sell out the rest of the LGBT+ community as long as they think they'll be allowed to exist.

It's not even that they "think" it. They're absolutely correct that the right doesn't have actual principles and just wants power. The elites would find a way to appease their base without meaningfully harming one of their own (at least until it gets to the point where their power is so consolidated that they all actually turn on each other, but even then his gayness won't be a deciding factor).

myusernameislame posted...

It's not even that they "think" it. They're absolutely correct that the right doesn't have actual principles and just wants power. The elites would find a way to appease their base without meaningfully harming one of their own (at least until it gets to the point where their power is so consolidated that they all actually turn on each other, but even then his gayness won't be a deciding factor).

As long as money rules the GOP, Thiel is safe.

If the religious fanatics ever get control of the party, a rich person dies as easily in an auto da fe as anyone else.

I thought Elon was Ted Faro but this guy is clearly in the lead.

jefffan posted...

I thought Elon was Ted Faro but this guy is clearly in the lead.

The success of PayPal has cursed the country with two billionaire assholes, Musk and Thiel.

Of the two, Musk is by far the one with less radioactive political views (although, to be fair to Musk, he is trying hard to close this gap).

It's a lot worse than people realise. This person monitors Palantir in the UK:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/502ea73a.jpg

Actually read the Bible and it sounds like the Antichrist is going to make great use out of AI:

The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.

bfslick50 posted...

Actually read the Bible and it sounds like the Antichrist is going to make great use out of AI:

The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.

Yeah a few of us schizos (me) were afraid Elon might do this with trump
thankfully trump is too stupid to be the anti Christ and Elon left him anyway

It's terrifying that people like him run the world

we should turn it around on him, make Peter Thiel is the antichrist popular

Yazarogi posted...

we should turn it around on him, make Peter Thiel is the antichrist popular

He is one of the leading contenders for that distinguished title.

"Beware the Antichrist!" warns the Devil.

Peter Thiel is out of his mind and the thought that JD Vance (who's entire political career was made possible by Theil) could end up being the president is fucking terrifying

wackyteen posted...

"Beware the Antichrist!" warns the Devil.

fitting!

A billionaire is using religion and fear to dissuade regulation of something that'll make him even richer? I don't think this has ever happened in recorded history.

*clutches pearls*

IMO there's a decent chance this is all a big act by Peter Thiel and he's really not a believer at all. It would be just like him to take out this bit of extra insurance vs. the religious whack jobs in the GOP going after him.

WingsOfGood posted...

what the fuck

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/86cb4a61.jpg
Pretty sure Thiel is the antichrist, if Trump ain't

AI is going to be the foundation for the "Image of the Beast" described in the Bible. It's basically already here; we just need the Beast to fully be revealed (with him likely being Donald Trump).

Mankind has roughly seven years left. Don't fall for the deception.

Clearly the Antichrist wants two things.

1. Attack and dethrone God.
2. Put regulations on AI schemes.

I remember watching a documentary about how people during the black plague thought the world was ending so they just got doped up and had mad orgies

I feel like we're almost to that point now... Or that the simulation is collapsing on itself, this just feels so unreal.

Stuch a moron