Is AI a tool for the Antichrist? The problem with Peter Thiel’s take on the end times
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
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Peter Thiel is drawing attention for hosting a Rome conference warning that technologies like AI could help usher in the Antichrist, even as critics accuse him of fueling fear around the end times. While concerns about global instability, war, and innovation are real, Scripture reminds us that “many antichrists have come” and that speculation about who the Antichrist might be is largely fruitless. Jesus instead pointed to “wars and rumors of wars” not to make us afraid, but so that we would not be. In the end, whether the world stabilizes or Christ returns, we are called to live with confidence that God is in control and to keep our focus on helping others know him.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Friday, March the 20th, 20, 26. Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Ryan Denison, senior editor for theology. |
| 0:17.6 | Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who made his mark with PayPal, Facebook, and Planetter, |
| 0:25.0 | before becoming one of the largest donors to the Republican Party and an early advocate for President Trump. |
| 0:31.5 | However, he's in the news this week for an entirely different reason. |
| 0:36.1 | Teal helped organize an exclusive conference in Rome, |
| 0:39.6 | where he led four days of discussions on the Antichrist |
| 0:43.2 | and his view that modern society is hurtling towards an inflection point |
| 0:47.7 | that could pave the way for the end times. |
| 0:50.2 | He claims that the Antichrist will use issues like nuclear war, climate change, and perhaps most importantly, artificial intelligence, to promise security in exchange for devotion and lead people to submit willingly to the sort of one-world totalitarian government depicted in the book of Revelation. |
| 1:09.3 | And while the lectures in Rome are not the first |
| 1:11.5 | time he's taught on this subject, he gave similar talks in San Francisco and Paris. This week's |
| 1:17.4 | events have generated far more attention in religious circles. Part of the reason is that the |
| 1:22.5 | meetings were arranged by Catholic organizations and located on the Vatican's doorstep, both of which raised |
| 1:28.8 | the ire of the Pope and others who have condemned Teal's message. |
| 1:32.9 | The Catholic newspaper Avenire went so far as to describe Teal as, quote, an agent of chaos. |
| 1:40.0 | Father Antonio Spadaro, a prominent Jesuit theologian, added that Teal, quote, |
| 1:45.0 | arrived in Rome not merely as a man of technology, but as an interpreter of the apocalypse, |
| 1:50.3 | end quote. While Teal would perhaps dispute the first accusation as being a man of technology, |
| 1:56.4 | there's little in his work on this subject that would take issue with the second. |
| 2:00.2 | When it comes to |
| 2:01.5 | apocalyptic topics, he speaks with a level of confidence and specificity that leaves |
| 2:06.8 | little doubt that he sees his beliefs as far more than theories. One of the ironies of Teal's |
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