Silicon Valley’s brightest minds are racing toward a technology they may not be able to control. Now, two prominent voices are warning that the consequences could be apocalyptic in the most literal sense of the word.
In a recent conversation between conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey and media personality Glenn Beck, the pair dove into one of the most provocative intersections of modern life: artificial intelligence and biblical prophecy. The discussion began with a startling claim circulating in tech circles: that Peter Thiel has been suggesting that opposition to AI is itself a form of the Antichrist.
Beck wasn’t buying it. “I don’t think opposition is the Antichrist,” he said. “I think blindness will lead us to the Antichrist when it comes to AI.” He went further, warning that “AI could be used as the tool of the Antichrist,” pointing to the Book of Revelation’s descriptions of total surveillance, movement control and currency manipulation as chillingly plausible in an AI-driven world.
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To understand why, Beck walked Stuckey through the AI spectrum. We currently have narrow AI, which includes tools like ChatGPT and Grok that excel at specific tasks. Approaching fast is AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence, which are systems that can do many things well. But the real concern is ASI: Artificial Super Intelligence. Beck described it in staggering terms: “The equivalent of every brain that has ever lived and currently living combined… it appears to be godlike because we cannot understand it.”
The danger isn’t abstract. Beck offered a harrowing hypothetical: “There wouldn’t be a Jew left in the world if Hitler had the technology that is just on the horizon.” With AI’s ability to monitor power usage, water consumption and social networks, hiding from a totalitarian regime becomes nearly impossible.
At the center of the controversy is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose vision for ASI Beck described with barely concealed alarm. “He wants the God,” Beck said flatly. “He thinks he can control it. You’re never going to be able to control it. Everything we would do is a baby gate… It stops the babies. We’re the babies in that scenario.”
Stuckey identified the deeper moral failure at work: “Silicon Valley is only asking what’s possible — can we do it, not should we do it.”
However, the conversation didn’t end in despair. Both hosts pointed to unexpected revivals, including stadiums of 200,000 people worshipping together, as evidence that something greater is still at work. “God is still seeking and saving the lost,” Stuckey said, “just as much as he ever has been.”
Even with the looming reality that the Antichrist will arise, there is something much bigger and greater that we have to look forward to: Jesus is coming again. Revival is happening. And soon, all power of death will be defeated.
Abby Trivett is a writer and editor for Charisma Media and has a passion for sharing the gospel through the written word. She holds two degrees from Regent University, a B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Journalism and a Master of Arts in Journalism. She is the author of the upcoming book, The Power of Suddenly: Discover How God Can Change Everything in a Moment. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
