Existential risk will present themselves in the form of a nuclear war, environmental disaster, dangerously modified Biov, and even autonomous deadly robots led by AI.
When people are racing towards the last battle-carveddon-government of one world, it will be created, promising peace and security. In Thiel’s considering, this totalitarian authoritarian regime, with real teeth and true power, will be the arrival of a newfangled antichrist, a figure defined in Christian sciences as a personal opponent of God who appears before the world …
According to the review of his previous lectures, Thiel is based on the theory that Antichrist can be an individual or being that is extremely charismatic, but talks many times about the end of the world, convincing society to give him power needed to regulate the existence of existential risk from science and technology.