Here is an amplification of something I have written about before.
When we enter the biblical End Times, a charlatan whom we call the Antichrist will tell the inhabitants of the Earth they do not deserve the punishments which G-d is inflicting on humanity and will tell them he will save those who worship him:
- He will promise to heal the sick
- He will promise to end war
- He will promise to feed the hungry
- He will promise to make us immortal
Yet, for most of human history those who have aspired to be (or to help) the Antichrist have never been able to deliver on those promises. Such powers have been out of their reach ... until now.
You may have noticed that the demigods and oracles of AI and Big Tech have been bragging about their recent and future achievements. These links will take you to essays/reports which discuss some of their "miracles":
(1) AI is enabling a broad revolution in healthcare, which is certainly anticipated to heal the sick:
https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/14/the-cdc-palantir-and-the-ai-healthcare-revolution/
(2) AI also is driving the rise of a new military-industrial complex, whose goal is to finally put an end to war:
https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/10/a-new-military-industrial-complex-arises/
(3) Additionally AI promises to eliminate world hunger:
https://www.localfutures.org/bill-gates-has-radical-plans-to-change-our-food-whats-on-the-menu/
(4) And last, but not least, AI-assisted immortality is right around the corner:
https://nypost.com/2023/03/29/immortality-is-attainable-by-2030-google-scientist/
Messrs. Thiel, Luckey, Gates, and Kurzweil may not actually dream of being the Antichrist (or of helping him come to power), but they definitely seem to me to be on such a path.
On the other hand, according to this next essay the lords of Silicon Valley are encouraging their non-believing peers to embrace Christianity. Ordinarily, I would look favorably on such a thing. But being a skeptic at heart, I also know that Satan is in the process of deceiving the whole world ... just like he always has since the beginning of time:
I have a very hard time finding anything "Christian" in what the AI/robotics/singularity crowd has been preaching. What bothers me the most about the above developments is that they may cause the unwitting to lose faith in the true Gospel. Should the Antichrist be able to seemingly prove using the latest digital tools that he can do things Jesus hasn't duplicated for the past two thousand years, how many people do you suppose will desert Christianity in favor of this new religion? (And in my opinion, that's exactly what it is - a new religion).
I think the answer to that question is "many", especially because the Antichrist has already promised he will KILL all those who do not take the mark of the beast and worship him. That makes him especially hard to resist.
And that is not what I would call a good outcome.