Latest News About Peter Thiel Antichrist

Updated 2026-05-16 12:06

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Antichrist or Armageddon? Peter Thiel rethinks apocalypse from ...

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and founder of Palantir, the surveillance company used by U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, launched a private lecture series on “the Antichrist” for technologists and futurists. Thiel seems to see the apocalypse unfolding in stages.

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What's up with Peter Thiel and the Antichrist?

Thiel's four-part lecturer series on the Antichrist, which concluded last week, drew a lot of attention in the tech world. Though it was off-the-record, the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reported extensively on his religious theories, in which Thiel warned of false prophets using AI regulations to gain totalitarian power and usher in a biblical apocalypse. (Eliezer Yudkowsky, of course, is the AI 'doomer' critic who wants to slow the technology down.)

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Peter Thiel Tries On the Antichrist for Size: Businessweek Daily

Businessweek senior reporter Max Chafkin, who wrote a biography of Peter Thiel, is here today to discuss the latest headlines about the controversial technologist. And speaking of tech, don’t miss Bloomberg’s live coverage of Apple’s iPhone launch this afternoon.

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