Magician populists call for the Holy War with a lot of technology

If you wanted to feel the current relationship between the law of technology and populists, you had to sit in a breakthrough room C on the first day of Natcon 5, the annual meeting of the power of Maga Right. At the end of the afternoon Culture war panel (“Need for Heroism”), Geoffrey Miller received a microphone and began to hide one of the panelists: SHYAM SANKAR, Director of Palantir Technology, which is responsible for the company’s AI efforts.

“I say that the AI ​​industry does not share practically ideological overlapping to domestic conservatism,” said Miller, referring to the basic ideology of the conference. A few hours ago, Miller, a professor of psychology at the University of Nowy Mexico, was at this stage for the panel “Ai and the American Soul”, calling populists to lead a literal holy war with the creators of artificial intelligence “as a betrayal of our genre, a traitor to our nation, apostates to our faith and threat to our children.” Now he stared at a technologist who had just given a speech, arguing that the founders of the technology were as Heroiani as founding fathers who are holy characters for Natcons. The industry of AI, told Sankar: “In general, globalistic, secular, liberal, feminized transhumanists. They already clearly want mass unemployment, plan communism based on UBI and perceive human species as a biological” load “, as they say, for artificial super -intelligence.”

Sankar conducted a tranquil defense that used the proper vocabulary of Natcon (“I think that the broadly secular culture of Silicon Valley filled a hole in the shape of God in its heart with this belief towards Aga.”) But in the next few days it seemed that Sankar was one of the very, very few participants with a positive view about the technological and AI industry. Natcon was the home of the intellectual law dominant in the government of Donald Trump – if you threw the stone on the corridor of the Westin Hotel, you had a good chance of hitting someone who contributed to the 2025 project – and it seemed that this week there are two topics: Dirty end of the support of Israel’s lawand the existential threat that technology posed for Western civilization.

Technological laws and the Magician populists united briefly to get a anti -slip Trump to the White House, and when their coalition broke, vice president JD Vance, Peter Thiel Protege, who attended Natcon many times, tried to serve between them with a bridge. But this year’s Natcon explained that the factions are no longer on the same side.

Almost half of the conference panels were clearly focused on technology. Technology disappears the brains of its children at school and destroying critical thought at universities. Technology weakening the American economy, technology that weakens national defense and international dominance, assault technician on Judeo-Christian faith and destroying humanity.

Their hostility differed wildly: some admitted that Ai did not leave and could have had Some Social benefit, if it was used correctly, while others claimed that the further development of AI would lead to “civilization suicide”. But almost all the speakers expressed deeply, emotionally rooted suspicions towards the technology industry.

Even the threat of the domination of Chinese artificial intelligence was not enough to influence them, or the fact that Trump himself signed financial projects such as Stargate. “The state justification for acceleration AI is quite clear:” We must defeat China and develop the economy, “said Michael Toscano, director of Family First Technology Initiative, during the Thursday conversation. “Of course, they have significant implications for the future of Americans, but the message is one of the idle life:” To beat China, you must be ready to part with everything – including a happier future for your children and grandchildren. “

Trump’s allies also said it in Natcon, from Steve Bannon to Josh Hawley to Mike Benz. And even the highest administrative officials contributed to Substantial Tech: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was republic for questioning Covid’s origin, and then he was appointed by Trump to manage the National Health Institutes, claimed that technology companies performing “Censorship” regained scientific progress.

This hostility has been cooking on the right for years, said Dean Ball, a former political advisor in AI and the developing technology in the White House of Trump, who also spoke to Natcon 5. “It is also the feeling of the feeling that in my opinion it was accurate for a long time,” he said The Verge“The fact that the technology industry made up with conservatives to silence conservative ideas.” He underwent a partial list of Substantial Tech crimes: algorithmic suppression, bans on Twitter, demonetization, section 230, content marked as “disinformation” and so on.

But although the technology industry is no longer perceived as actively censorship of conservatives after the election, as if it was unable NO Running of cultural, intellectual and religious social conservatives. Addiction to social media and chatbots sold in relation to children, for example, they convey right -wing panic over family values. (This was the subject of the “Tech and Family Future” panel.) Biohacking and genetic modification are the direct insult to Christian rights of nature. And transhumanism – the idea that technology will directly strengthen humanity – is an affront for God’s creatures, a point that was presented during the first conference speech.

“Conservatism concerns human dignity and human blooming,” said Rachel Bovard, vice president of programs at the influential conservative partnership institute during the first conference speech. “By definition, there is no such thing as conservative transhuman.”

Ball noticed that the antipathy of the right was so deep that Elon Muska, who once thought, who once thought the real ideological ally. “If a socially conservative person used a language model, he would use grok because he trusted the grok,” he said. But at the time when Musk released the generative function of porn AI Grok Xai, releasing the “Hentai sex boots”, he lost his right will. (His special Non -Christian attitude on the solution to the crisis of fertility It did not assist matters either.)

Animus in the direction of artificial intelligence in Natcon was intense enough to get some previously heretic ideas, such as the combination of forces with trade unions. “[They] Has a long history of confrontation with technological changes and should be treated as sources of experience and knowledge, and not the historical force of a deadlogental tangible importance, “Toscano argued at some point, adding that if Trump managed to gather the right wing and relationships together,” he would fall into history as one of the greatest presidents of America, if it wasn’t for the man who saved the future. “

When we talked the day after the conference, Ball – one of the few with Natcon who expressed optimism about the future of technology in America – he expressed the fear that suspicion of enormous technology could not be overcome by energetic political debates. “AND I am On the right – he said – but I tell my friends on the right: you can conduct a very reasonable discussion about what we should technically do to make chatbots safer for children. I do not think that you can conduct a very fruitful discussion, if this is not really your goal, and actually your goal is to prosecute, in principle a kind of religious war with technology and technological. “

At the very beginning of the Sankar conference – the most outstanding representative of the AI ​​industry in Natcon, who could damage Palantir’s relationship with the Trump administration, if he said the wrong room in this room – he also seemed to note anger. “AI genie is not beyond a bottle – this does not mean that it is a transhumanist future,” he said in response to Miller. His own vision of artificial intelligence was a powerful tool for entrepreneurial Americans “busy implementing sleeves”. He said that “he is an extremely American phenomenon”, which, he claimed, could “change the world and promote our values.”

Unfortunately, at the end of Natcon, no one agreed with Sanar. “Yes, artificial intelligence can have huge advantages,” said Steve Bannon during the final comments. “But you look at the bottomless pit. This is a minus that no one understands and no one can express. And the last thing I want is a group of people in the spectrum in the Silicon Valley – I don’t want them not to be so dedicated to Americans.”

The crowd exploded with applause.