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Peter Thiel calls Greta Thunberg, AI critics ‘legionnaires of the Antichrist’: Report
Peter Thiel linked AI critics to apocalyptic threats and warned of totalitarian risks while his firm Palantir aids U.S. law enforcement with data on over half the adult population.
- During a closed four-part lecture series at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Peter Thiel warned tech limits could bring U.S. destruction and global totalitarianism, The Washington Post reported Oct 10.
- Concerned about one-world regulation, Thiel warned that an `Antichrist` could emerge to promise to halt nuclear, AI or climate disasters to establish global control, linking tech rules to U.S. collapse.
- In his Sept. 15 opening lecture, Thiel named Greta Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky as possible `legionnaires of the Antichrist` and contrasted a mad scientist Antichrist with a modern Luddite.
- Palantir's software combs financial, travel, phone and social-media data, and Bloomberg reports FBI, Department of Homeland Security, HHS, plus several city police use it, identifying over half of U.S. adults.
- Thiel urged Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge, warning $200 billion could go `to left-wing nonprofits that will be chosen by Bill Gates`, and said Musk `took the concerns seriously`.
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Audio of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked
Palantir cofounder and libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel has been giving a series of secret lectures about technology and religion, which centered on his theories about the antichrist — yes, the one from the Bible. And according to leaked audio of the sessions, obtained by news outlets including The Washington Post and The Guardian, the events sound just about as weird as you might expect. The political megadonor just wrapped up a stint o…
Exclusive: Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity
The billionaire venture capitalist and early Trump supporter has urged long-time associate Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their wealth to charity.
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