Right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel has an obsession with the idea of a modern antichrist figure, and loathes anyone who is skeptical of artificial intelligence and technological progress.

During a lecture series in San Francisco, which took place throughout September and early October, Thiel reportedly called AI skeptics “legionnaires of the antichrist,” and named left-wing activist Greta Thunberg and computer scientist Eliezer Yudkowsky as possible antichrist figures. Thunberg has blamed global capitalism for destroying the environment, while Yudkowsky has pushed for constraints on AI research to prevent the technology from ever eclipsing human intelligence.  (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a free weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)

“In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,” Thiel said in the opening talk Sept. 15, according to The Washington Post. “In the........

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