Discussion on AI and Authoritarianism

This is my, my, my very specific question for you, right,

is that-

Well, it's-

You are, you are, you're an, you're an investor in AI.

You're, you know, you're deeply invested in Palantir,

in military

technology, in technologies of surveillance,

in technologies

of warfare, and so on, right? And it just seems to me that

when you tell me a story-

Mm-hmm

... about the Antichrist coming to power and

using the fear of technological change to sort of impose

order on the world,

I feel like that Antichrist would be maybe be using the tools

that you-

Yeah, but-

... that you are, that you are building, right?

Like, wouldn't the Antichrist be like, "Great, you know, we're not gonna have any

more technological progress, but I really like what Palantir has done

so

far." Right?

Yeah, but-

I mean, isn't that a, isn't that a concern?

Wouldn't that be the, you know, the irony of history would be that the

man publicly worrying about the Antichrist

accidentally hastens his or her arrival?

Uh, they're all... Look, there, there are all these different

scenario... I obviously don't think that that's what I'm doing.

I, uh, I-

I mean, to be clear, I don't think that's-

Um-

I don't think that's what you're doing either.

And I-

I'm just interested in how you get to-

Well, well-

... a world willing to submit to permanent

authoritarian

rule.

Well, but,

but

again, uh,

there, there are these different gradations of,

of this we can describe,

but is, is this so

preposterous, what I've just told you, as a broad account of

the stagnation that the entire

world has submitted for 50 years

to peace-and-safetyism? This is, uh, 1 Thessalonians 5:3.

The slogan of the Antichrist is peace and safety bec- and, and

we've submitted