And so it goes.
Remember the “1990 prophecy”? It said in part, “You think of the changes in very simple ways, without realizing the fundamental mistakes of mankind. The very artifice of your societies is false and against the accordance of God’s Will. This artifice shall not last. Your very conceptions of happiness and comforts are a great evil and falsity. They will not stand.”
That was followed up fourteen years later by one that said, “The event to come will surprise everyone who has offered a prognostication, and will show even recalcitrant scientists, though not all, that there is a fundamental alarm in Heaven over their arrogant and wayward course.
“Nothing that is artificial in a way that disrupts what God intended will be allowed to stand.”
“Artificial”–as in A.I.?
In a recent interview with a (Catholic) columnist at The New York Times, mega-billionaire and high-tech mogul Paul Thiel (founder with Elon Musk of of PayPal and Palantir and a self-professed “Christian,” though also a practicing homosexual), said, “There’s a risk of nuclear war, there’s a risk of environmental disaster. Maybe something specific, like climate change, although there are lots of other ones we’ve come up with. There’s a risk of bioweapons. You have all the different sci-fi scenarios.
“Obviously, there are certain types of risks with A.I.
“I would say the default political solution people have for all these existential risks is one-world governance. What do you do about nuclear weapons? We have a United Nations with real teeth that controls them, and they’re controlled by an international political order. And then something like this is also: What do we do about A.I.? And we need global compute governance. We need a one-world government to control all the computers, log every single keystroke, to make sure people don’t program a dangerous A.I. And I’ve been wondering whether that’s going from the frying pan into the fire.
“The atheist philosophical framing is ‘One World or None.’ That was a short film that was put out by the Federation of American Scientists in the late ’40s. It starts with the nuclear bomb blowing up the world, and obviously, you need a one-world government to stop it—one world or none. And the Christian framing, which in some ways is the same question, is: Antichrist or Armageddon?
“You have the one-world state of the Antichrist, or we’re sleepwalking toward Armageddon. ‘One world or none,’ ‘Antichrist or Armageddon,’ on one level, are the same question.