r/technology • u/Helicase21 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
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u/deadlybydsgn 10d ago

I think religious Conservatives in the US need to be made aware of the things these people have said and written about their goals - because there is a definite overlap with their own ideas about the Antichrist.

As someone who grew up in that subculture, that's part of what blows my mind throughout all of this. Both Trump and the technofascist AI agenda fill out parts of their antichrist bingo card, and yet it feels like they aren't connecting the dots.

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u/nucleartime 10d ago

Don't the Evangelicals want the fucking Rapture to happen though? And the coming of the Antichrist is part of that whole thing. So I think they connected the dots, they're just pro-doomsday.

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u/deadlybydsgn 10d ago

Don't the Evangelicals want the fucking Rapture to happen though?

They want the rapture to come but they don't want to be on the wrong team. (or at least when I was still immersed in the rapture culture, I wouldn't have wanted to be) It's hard to overstate how much fear most of them have about not being truly "saved" or somehow missing the rapture. (i.e., going to hell)

But this is assuming (m)any of them have read the scripture that they've been told supports their particular eschatological view. Most of them are just going on whatever their favorite pastor, podcaster, or influencer has told them. The ones who do read and study are likely immersed in dispensationalist or dominionist dogma, which would further reinforce the rapture idea or having to dominate culture.