Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Technology gurus certainly differ when it comes to the destructive potential of AI, government power, and humanity's future.

Some, like Noah Yuval Harari, are all in, embracing the promises of youth, peace, and prosperity.

Others are more measured, such as Elon Musk, who looks forward to the day that people can

download their minds into robots, but also worries that AI could go rogue.

Peter Thiel is one of the most interesting cases.

A recent episode of the theology podcast rightly described

Teal as a theologically curious tech bro who has introduced the word Antichrist back into popular

conversations, all while warning of AI's capabilities. Teal also thinks that AI is the best way

to fight this monster. In an interview with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution,

Teal suggested that only fear of chaos like war, famine, and disease, what he called Armageddon,

could lead otherwise free-thinking people to give up their liberty to a strong man, i.e. the

Antichrist, who promises them safety. A more recent article in First Things, co-authored by Teal and Sam Wolf argued that,

when faced with picking the lesser of two evils, don't.

And I quote, for philosophy, the question one world or none has but one answer, better

red than dead.

Theology reformulates the question Antichrist or Armageddon.

Neither, the Christian replies.

He prays for new miracles, new technologies, strange new possibilities.

Not necessarily clear, but had till stopped there, he would have added something constructive

to an essential conversation.

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