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Pope's AI Advisor Calls Thiel's Rome Lectures 'Prolonged Act of Heresy'
Peter Thiel’s exclusive Rome lectures link biblical prophecy with AI and politics, sparking controversy as Catholic institutions deny official ties to the event held March 8-11.
- On Sunday, U.S. venture capitalist Peter Thiel launched a series of closed-door lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the Antichrist, drawing scrutiny from Catholic commentators.
- Thiel, 58, previously held similar talks last year in San Francisco, where he expressed concerns that an Antichrist might emerge to establish a one-world government under the guise of solving global crises.
- Father Paolo Benanti, the Pope's artificial intelligence advisor, wrote on Saturday that Thiel operated as a "political theologian," describing his actions as a "prolonged act of heresy" against the liberal consensus.
- Catholic universities in Rome denied hosting the private event, and no meetings are scheduled between Thiel and Pope Leo or Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, according to official agendas.
- Thiel's visit aligns with recent trips to Italy by U.S. conservatives including Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk, and Steve Bannon, amid criticism from the Avvenire newspaper.
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Peter Thiel, the libertarian technooligarch who has driven with his dollars the rise to power of the American vice president JD Vance and is an ally of Donald Trump, has suggested in Rome that in the coming days he will reveal who is the Antichrist who will drag us to the Apocalypse. "I am afraid, we must deepen the knowledge we have of him", he has detailed, according to the Italian press. It has not been surprising. Thiel, a firm advocate that…
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The point is not that Peter Thiel holds in the capital a series of confidential lessons on the Antichrist, nor that the news immediately ignited distrust, distanced and the usual Italian political-media hysteria. The point is that the arrival in Rome of the co-founder of PayPal and founder of Palantir Technologies, central figure of the American technological-conservative block, forces us to deal with something that we often prefer to evade: the…
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Initial reports suggested the talks would be held at Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic university in Rome sometimes known as the Angelicum. However, the university later issued a statement saying the lectures were not organised by the institution and would not take place on its campus.
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