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Thiel Accuses Pope of 'Working for Chinese Communists" on AI

Thiel said the Vatican’s AI warning would slow the U.S. in its race with China and called Pope Leo XIV a Chinese communist ally.

  • On Tuesday, billionaire Peter Thiel warned an audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival that Pope Leo XIV is inadvertently "working for the Chinese Communists" by advocating for international artificial intelligence regulation.
  • Thiel argued the Pope's encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," threatens the U.S. position in the global AI race, claiming Beijing is unlikely to heed Vatican requests to disarm the technology.
  • During the same panel, Thiel claimed the Democratic Party faces a "democratic-socialist takeover," asserting the Republican Party is the "less important" political force in the current landscape.
  • President Trump joined the criticism on social media, labeling the Pope "WEAK on Crime" and "terrible for Foreign Policy," while claiming Leo would not hold his position without his administration.
  • Long-Standing friction exists between the tech investor and the Holy See, stemming from Thiel's March lecture series in Rome regarding the Antichrist, which reportedly unnerved Vatican officials.
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At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Peter Thiel expressed sharp criticism of Western regulatory policy. According to Thiel, the West is threatening to lose the race for artificial intelligence (AI) against China – also because moral authorities such as the Vatican were slowing down technological progress. Peter Thierl pleads for less regulation of artificial intelligence. Image: keystonePeter Thiel expressed sharp criticism of Western regulatory policy…

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A statement made by one of the most well-known people in the technology industry provoked strong reactions. Peter Thiel, a billionaire close to Trump and co-founder of the Palantir company, claimed that Pope Leon XIV would act in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party, after Supreme Pontif demanded stricter international rules on the development of artificial intelligence.

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Billiard Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and top investor in Silicon Valley, made hallucinating accusations to the Vatican, claiming that Pope Leon XIV is "a Chinese communist agent." Article Pope Leon, undercover Chinese agent? The hallucinating accusation launched by the co-founder PayPal first appears in Romania TV.

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