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title: "Thiel's leaked Rome lectures cast EA and AI \"safetyism\" as Antichrist forerunners, Bill Gates as \"Mr. Hyde\", and Eliezer Yudkowsky as \"more Luddite than Greta\" (David Gibson/The Verge)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/thiels-leaked-rome-lectures-cast-ea-and-ai-safetyism-as-antichrist-4f83f405
published: 2026-10-21T01:10:02.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Thiel's leaked Rome lectures cast EA and AI "safetyism" as Antichrist forerunners, Bill Gates as "Mr. Hyde", and Eliezer Yudkowsky as "more Luddite than Greta" (David Gibson/The Verge)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-21 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/thiels-leaked-rome-lectures-cast-ea-and-ai-safetyism-as-antichrist-4f83f405

David Gibson / The Verge : Thiel's leaked Rome lectures cast EA and AI "safetyism" as Antichrist forerunners, Bill Gates as "Mr. Hyde", and Eliezer Yudkowsky as "more Luddite than Greta" — It's a time of apocalyptic worldviews in Silicon Valley. The latest AI doom cycle is driven …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261020/p57#a261020p57)

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