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Right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel is accusing Pope Leo XIV of doing the work of the Chinese Communist Party with his criticisms of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

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According to a Thursday report from CNN, Thiel told the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday that the pope was inadvertently serving as a \u201cChinese communist agent\u201d when he released a 42,000-word encyclical that called for strict regulation of AI, a technology that the pontiff said heightens the \u201crisk of dehumanization\u201d throughout the world.<\/p>\n

Thiel argued that this sort of thinking was dangerous, CNN reported, because it could result in the US losing the \u201crace\u201d to build more advanced AI to China. Because of this, Thiel continued, the pope is essentially \u201cworking for the Chinese communists\u201d by trying to tap the brakes on AI development.<\/p>\n

Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, has long decried AI critics in harsh terms. Over the last year, he has been delivering a series of lectures in which he has said that opponents of AI development are working as agents for the Antichrist.<\/p>\n

Journalist Christopher Hale, who writes the Letters From Leo newsletter, noted on Friday that Thiel in the past has even speculated that Pope Leo could be \u201ca manifestation of the Antichrist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thiel has said that he instructed Vice President JD Vance, a longtime political ally who received major funding from the tech billionaire for his 2022 Senate campaign, to ignore the pope\u2019s moral guidance despite influencing Vance to convert to Catholicism, Hale added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThiel seeded the vice president\u2019s Catholic faith,\u201d Hale wrote, \u201cand he now tells wealthy festival audiences that the leader of that faith works for a communist government.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to his attacks on the pope, Thiel also warned about \u201ca democratic-socialist takeover of the Democratic Party,\u201d pointing to recent victories in New York and Colorado of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n

Thiel said that this \u201ctakeover\u201d would doom the US, arguing that \u201cwhen the Democratic Party goes, this country is over,\u201d according to CNN.<\/p>\n

The New York Times reported in May that Thiel has grown so concerned about the political situation in the US that he\u2019s created a \u201cfoothold\u201d for himself in Argentina, which is currently being governed by ideologically likeminded libertarian President Javier Milei.<\/p>\n

\u201cThiel, who has a history of collecting backup countries as he hedges his bets against the United States, is considering making Argentina another Plan B,\u201d the Times reported. \u201cBorn in Germany and raised in the United States, he received citizenship in New Zealand in 2011, and applied for a passport in Malta in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

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