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Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel
Tech billionaire claims in a lecture about religion that the devil promises peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation
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. 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. 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”.
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