What Peter Thiel has said about Antichrist
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 22, 2026
Peter Thiel, Investor and author of Zero to One, has been quoted on Antichrist 2 times in 1 episode of The Builders, most recently on October 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Thiel says a softly totalitarian one-world government should be weighed alongside other existential risks.
“the existential risk that I also want to always throw in the hopper and the balance of the discussion is the risk of a softly totalitarian one world government”
The Builders: Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator as Hard as Possible” on AI (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 31:43
Thiel says he prefers the religious framing because it pushes toward avoiding both catastrophe and global tyranny.
“And Antichrist or Armageddon pushes us to find a moderate third way”
The Builders: Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator as Hard as Possible” on AI (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 36:36
Episodes
Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator as Hard as Possible” on AIThe Builders · Oct 22, 2026 · 58 min
Walter Isaacson interviews Peter Thiel on the AI backlash, existential risk, his Antichrist lectures, founder-led companies, René Girard, and why he prefers evil to incompetence.
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