A Billionaire Preached The Antichrist At AI Safety, Then Quietly Bought A Bunker

I come from a long LAPD background, and I really have nothing to lose at this point, so I am going to tell you what happened this week in a way that not many people are saying out loud. There is a room in San Francisco where the richest men in tech sit down to listen to a sermon. No cameras allowed. No recordings. No reporters. They even kicked out the pastors, the people of faith. The man at the front built a machine that helps the government watch you, and he stood up there and preached about the Antichrist. Then he pointed at the people who want to put safety rules on artificial intelligence, and he called them soldiers of the devil.

That happened. That is not a movie. That is a Tuesday. So buckle up and let me have a seat at the table, because I am going to give you what this might actually mean for you and your family.

Who Is Peter Thiel

His name is Peter Thiel. If you do not know him, here is the short version. He helped start PayPal. He was the first big money into Facebook. And he built a company called Palantir. That is the part you should remember. Palantir builds the software that governments and police and intelligence agencies use to watch people, to track them, to pull every piece of data about a person into one screen. That is his business. Watching. Tracking. Knowing where you are and what you are doing.

He is worth more than twenty billion dollars. He bankrolls politicians and he bankrupts them. He is not a guy on the sidelines. He is one of the most powerful people alive, who you never voted for and never will. Now hold that picture for a second. The surveillance guy. The watch everybody guy. And this last fall, that guy rented a hall in San Francisco and gave four lectures. The topic was the Antichrist. It was not a business talk or a tech talk. It was about the end of the world.

The Lectures Were Off The Record On Purpose

Here is the first thing that should make the hair on your neck stand up. It was off the record on purpose. The invite told everybody no recordings, this never leaves the room. The seats were full of tech money and surveillance money. And when one guy in the audience wrote up his notes and posted them, they banned him from the rest of the talks and kept his money.

Think about that. You are preaching about God, good, and evil, so why do you lock the doors? Why ban the cameras? Why throw out the clergy? You do not hide a sermon meant to save people. You hide a sermon meant for a very specific group of people, and not for you. The only reason any of us know a word of what he said is that it got leaked to the Washington Post.

So here is the big idea in plain English. Thiel says the real danger to the world is a coming, and I quote, one world state. A single government that controls everything. He says it will show up wearing a friendly face. It will promise you peace. It will promise you safety. It will promise to protect you from this scary new technology. And then he says that friendly face, the one promising to keep you safe, that is the Antichrist.

Now stay with me, because here is the move, and this is the whole thing. If the villain is the one promising safety, then who are the villain's helpers? Thiel tells you it is the people asking for rules. He has a name for them. He calls them legionaries of the Antichrist. A legionary is a soldier. I had to look it up. So he is saying these people are foot soldiers for the devil. And who did he name? Greta Thunberg, the climate activist. A man named Eliezer Yudkowsky, who spends his whole life warning that AI could get dangerous if nobody puts the brakes on it. People who say slow down. People who say put up the guardrails. People who say maybe a handful of billionaires should not control the most powerful technology in human history with nobody checking them.

The Block Tower Trick

Let me explain what this actually is, because it is old, it is clever, and once you see it you cannot unsee it. Picture a kid building the biggest tower of blocks you have ever seen. Higher and higher. He never wants to stop. Then some other kids walk up and say, hey, that thing is getting kind of wobbly, somebody might get hurt, let us put a few rules on this.

Now the kid with the tower has a choice. He can listen, or he can make those other kids look so bad that nobody ever listens to them again. Thiel picked option two. But he did not just say the other kids are wrong. He said the other kids are evil, demonic, enemies of the one true and living God.

That is the trick. You do not have to prove you are good. You just have to convince everybody the other side is evil, and then you get to keep building as high as you want and as fast as you want, and anyone who objects is on the side of the devil. This is the exact same play as the fear I unpacked when Mythos got handed to the Fortune 50 and not to you: tell the public the machine is dangerous, then make sure only the right people get to hold it.

It Was Never About Religion. It Is About Power.

Here is the part nobody is saying out loud. It is not really about religion at all. It is about power. About making sure nothing and nobody is ever allowed to slow it down. Think about who benefits if regular people believe AI safety rules are the work of the devil. The people building AI with no brakes. That is who.

If you can get a working person to believe that the folks asking for guardrails are evil, then the working person will fight against their own protection. They will cheer for the tower to go higher. They will boo the people trying to make it safe for their own kids. It is the oldest play in the book. Convince the people at the bottom that the people trying to help them are the enemy, and then you can do whatever you want. I walked through the same money motive when a company filed to go public right after warning its machine could end humanity. Fear is a sales tool.

Now Watch What They Do, Not What They Say

This is the thing that ties it all together. While Thiel is up there telling you the future is a battle between good and evil and he is on the side of good, here is what the future actually looks like for him. He reportedly has a 477 acre compound in New Zealand, on the other side of the planet, stocked and ready to go.

The head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, reportedly keeps guns, gold, antibiotics, gas masks, and pills for nuclear fallout. His backup plan, in his own words, is to fly to Thiel's land in New Zealand when things fall apart. Another tech founder said out loud that more than half the billionaires he knows have already bought what they call apocalypse insurance. Bunkers and escape hatches.

So let me get this straight. The same men telling you the future is bright, that AI is going to lift everybody up, that the people who want safety are the bad guys, those exact men are buying bunkers on the other side of the world. You do not build an escape hatch from a future you believe is going to be good. That is the tell. That is the whole show in one sentence. They are not afraid of the people asking for the rules. They are afraid of what happens with no rules. And they have already bought their way out of the room. You and me do not get a bunker in New Zealand. When the tower falls, we are going to be standing right under it together. This is the same pattern I traced when whole countries started competing to host machines with no rules.

The One Move For Your Family

Here is what this means for you. Not fear, something you can actually use. Stop trusting the brochure. When somebody who is getting rich off a thing tells you it is safe, and then quietly builds himself an escape hatch from that same thing, you have your answer. You do not need a degree. You do not need to understand the code. You just need to watch where the smart money runs, and where it thinks nobody is looking.

It is the same instinct that keeps you safe everywhere else in life. When the guy selling you the car will not let you look under the hood, you do not buy the car. These men will not let us look under the hood. They lock the doors, they throw out the cameras, and they preach to each other in the dark. That is not the behavior of people who believe their own story.

We do not have to panic. Panic is what they want, and Thiel said it himself: the way you grab power is by making everybody afraid of the end of the world and then offering yourself as the protection, as the savior. So we do not do afraid. We do clear eyed. We watch the behavior. We read the bunkers and the farmland and the locked doors for exactly what they are. And we remember one thing. We outnumber them. We always have. This whole game works only if regular people stay confused, stay scared, and stay pointed at the wrong enemy. The enemy was never the people asking for guardrails on your kid's future. The enemy is anybody who tells you to look up at the bright future while they quietly pack a bag for somewhere else.

My Own Take, From A Guy Who Is Not A Billionaire

When I was growing up I was on shortwave radio. I am 57 years old, born in 1969, and back in the mid seventies and early eighties we used to listen to people talking about the one world government, the final end of society. It was a very popular theme. Some government entity was going to go door to door, disarm the citizens, and form a one world government. And you know what, I think Star Trek is kind of a one world government, and that future looks pretty good, at least from the outside.

I do not know Peter Thiel. Never met him. I was a cop for a long time, and if the things they talk about are true, the things I read in the news and investigated to put this little show together, it is fascinating to me. I do not know how many people actually run the world. I do not know if there is a secret group like the Illuminati that people talk about. But if there is, it would be fascinating to get a glimpse into that world.

And why am I not worried? When I was a police officer for all those years, I was completely fascinated at the value people place on human life. Some people think a life is worth no more than a twenty dollar rock of cocaine. I think human value is valuable because we are human. But I think a lot of the people building this are trying to find God in the machine. That ultimate control scenario is powerful and very appealing, I would imagine. I am not a billionaire. I do not even have health insurance. But having everything you need without worrying about money, plus the connections to build things that control a lot of people, I do not know where that goes. I do believe there is an ultimate God of the universe, and I know He is not going to be found in the machine. At least not by me.

Here is why this moment is different from every revolution before it. The printing press, cars, radio, TV, satellites, the internet, those were each one piece of intelligence. This is all about intelligence itself. The people building it will tell you they hate it when you say AI is a replacement for human labor. Can it replace human labor? Maybe not me, at least not right now, not the DNA of Connor. But what Connor does, maybe, and maybe someday everyone else. And they talked about one of the biggest companies not wanting to go public yet, because they are very close to recursive self improvement, which is AI teaching itself. If that goes fully autonomous, the machine making itself better all by itself, that could move fast. I broke down that exact moment when a machine built a smarter machine without us.

We are about to close out June of 2026 as I film this. I think by the end of the year there will be some major accomplishments on the AI front. We do not have the physical arm of it yet, no robots walking around, just delivery carts and a few self driving cars. But what happens when there are a lot of them, when they all have AI, when the physical realm starts to be covered? Interesting. We will have to see. So be careful out there, and understand we are being listened to all the time. This is not to scare you, but privacy really does not exist. Say something out loud and it shows up in your feed a couple days later, just to prove the point. You can use AI to build up your businesses. I do that all day long. I am just trying to make sure the rest of us understand this stuff in time to do something about it. AI for everyone, not just the ones with the bunker.