{"id":83105,"date":"2026-05-29T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83105"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:04:11","slug":"peter-thiel-vs-pope-leo-silicon-valley-and-the-vatican-battle-over-whos-the-real-antichrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/peter-thiel-vs-pope-leo-silicon-valley-and-the-vatican-battle-over-whos-the-real-antichrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel Vs Pope Leo \u2014 Silicon Valley And The Vatican Battle Over Who\u2019s The Real Antichrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The New York Post (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a Monday encyclical letter, Pope Leo XIV\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/25\/world-news\/pope-leo-xiv-calls-for-robust-regulation-of-ai-in-manifesto-that-ponders-the-future-of-humanity\/&amp;source=gmail-imap&amp;ust=1780433543000000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1T8LowR7JlybbM3nuZZPVv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned\u00a0<\/a>mankind is facing the \u201crisk of being misled by deceitful goals\u201d in the age of AI and called on regulators to stand up to its creators.<\/p>\n<p>The 42,000 word manifesto comes after Peter Thiel has repeatedly argued in a global speaking tour \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/16\/europe\/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl&amp;source=gmail-imap&amp;ust=1780433543000000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1bhf-Fu5ET94yrwqY3PxKj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including in Rome,<\/a> right outside Vatican City \u2014 that a powerful figure trying to stymy technological progress will turn out to be the antichrist predicted by the New Testament.\u00a0It\u2019s a frankly bizarre standoff between two very different Christian predictions about the future of AI: one in which AI delivers us to our maximal human potential, and the other in which AI represents an existential risk to our very humanity. While the pope warns AI\u2019s creators are playing god and flirting with disaster, Thiel has been arguing that anyone who stands in their way is a \u201clegionnaire\u201d of the antichrist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1780048808\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Peter Thiel Vs Pope Leo \u2014 Silicon Valley And The Vatican Battle Over Who\u2019s The Real Antichrist\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Post (caution: tabloid): In a Monday encyclical letter, Pope Leo XIV\u00a0warned\u00a0mankind is facing the \u201crisk of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83109,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105\/revisions\/83109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}