Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is escalating his campaign against artificial intelligence regulation, targeting two of the technology’s most prominent critics: former President Barack Obama and Pope Leo XIV.
Thiel accused both men of capitalizing on public anxiety about AI during closed-door lectures in Nashville on Sept. 28 and Oct. 5, according to recordings obtained by Decoded by Politico. The talks are the latest installment of Thiel’s lecture series on the Antichrist, a figure from Christian theology whom he sees as halting technological progress and advocating a “one world government” of regulation.
