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Peter Thiel spewed crazy theories about Pope Leo, Anthropic, and the reason for the American Revolution at Aspen Inst. [View all]
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/us/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cecBillionaire tech investor Peter Thiel delivered a series of provocative warnings and predictions about the future of artificial intelligence and the West on Tuesday, accusing Pope Leo XIV of inadvertently serving as a “Chinese communist agent” by calling for AI regulation. In his remarks at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, he also warned of a “democratic-socialist takeover” of the United States’ Democratic Party.
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In May, Leo used his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”), to declare that artificial intelligence “must be disarmed” and call for greater international regulation of the technology.
Because the pope’s message could influence some Americans, but is unlikely to be heeded by people in China, Thiel argued, the encyclical threatened to slow down only one side of the “race between the US and China” to advance AI.
In his own view, Thiel said, that means Leo is “working for the Chinese Communists.” The Aspen audience received his characterization of the pope as a Chinese agent with laughter.
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In May, Leo used his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”), to declare that artificial intelligence “must be disarmed” and call for greater international regulation of the technology.
Because the pope’s message could influence some Americans, but is unlikely to be heeded by people in China, Thiel argued, the encyclical threatened to slow down only one side of the “race between the US and China” to advance AI.
In his own view, Thiel said, that means Leo is “working for the Chinese Communists.” The Aspen audience received his characterization of the pope as a Chinese agent with laughter.
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Thiel warned that there will be a democratic socialist takeover of the Democratic Party, and because the Republican Party is "the less important one...when the Democratic Party goes, this country is over."
He "explained" that people have misunderstood what the American Revolution was really about, which he said was a rebellion against the "tyrannical rule of lawyers" via laws passed by Parliament, and our own Constitution was designed to make presidents more powerful than kings.
He explained that the power of tech companies is very healthy for the US because it means "power centers are distributed."
And he claimed Anthropic, a "woke liberal" company, would rig the 2028 elections to help Democrats.
He needs an intervention.
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