Existential dangers will current themselves within the type of nuclear warfare, 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…
Based on a assessment of his previous lectures, Thiel attracts on a concept that the Antichrist may very well be a person or entity that’s extremely charismatic however talks repeatedly in regards to the finish of the world, thereby convincing society to offer it the ability wanted to control the existential dangers from science and know-how.