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Peter Thiel doesn’t usually bite his tongue, and he didn’t do so a few days ago at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The investor and co-founder of Palantir and PayPal He participated in a talk in which he accused Pope Leo XIV of being (unknowingly) at the service of the Chinese Communist Party. The reason: his last encyclical, Magnificent Humanitas. Thiel’s argument. In this text the Pope advocated regulate AI to avoid misuse of technology. For Thiel, although this message may resonate with people around the world concerned about AI, it will hardly have a similar effect in China, where the Catholic religion is a minority. The Pope is “working for the Chinese communists”. For Thiel, this means that the encyclical only stops one of the two major sides in the race for AI, and leaves Beijing free to continue advancing without any type of moral brake. Conclusion, according to this magnate: the Pope “is working for the Chinese communists.” This comes from afar. A few months ago, in March, Thiel already offered a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. As it turned out later, this event bothered the Vatican so much that two Catholic universities they had to go out to clarify who had not participated in its organization. For the tycoon, the Antichrist might not be a person, but a world government who takes power promising to protect humanity from existential threats like AI. Thiel didn’t stop there. In addition to this accusation about the Pope, Thiel also warned that a “democratic-socialist coup d’état” is taking place in the United States. Without any evidence, he accused Anthropic (which he called “woke liberal”) that it would use its models to manipulate the 2028 elections in favor of Democrats. Interested speech. But this investor and entrepreneur has its own “agenda” and a few ideas quite pilgrims. He was one of Donald Trump’s first supporters in Silicon Valley, and as pointed out on CNN, he also helped boost the political career of the US vice president, J.D. Vance. The latter worked at Mithrill Capital, the investment firm co-founded by Thiel himself, before making the leap into politics. Image | Gage Skidmore | Catholic Church England and Wales In Xataka | If things go wrong for me, it’s because of the politicians; If I do well, it is thanks to me: the bias that damages democracy