The formation of a “One World Government” with authoritarian powers over the entire globe is the only way to slow AI development and protect citizens from risks, according to Peter Thiel.
During an interview with Axel Springer, Thiel said “In theory, you could slow it down if you had genuine, deep cooperation across the whole world. But I think that would require like a one world government with real teeth, real force. And the sort of classical liberal part of me thinks that’s almost frying pan into fire. It’s a cure that’s worse than the disease.”
The alternative, he argued, is theater. “And then of course you can have fake global government where we have a lot of conferences, discuss it, a lot of somewhat empty statements that get put out.”
The other danger, he said, is that development is checked in the West and left untouched in China.
Thiel then turned to the Vatican. “The pope recently issued this AI encyclical, or I would characterize it as an anti-AI encyclical,” he said. “And again, this is, maybe it was too harsh, but the rhetorical point I have on it is that the Communist Party of China is not going to listen to the pope.
“There’s a chance people in the US will. And so in effect, the pope’s encyclical was working for the Communist Party. I’m not saying he was an agent of the Communists, but he was at least acting as a useful idiot for the CCP.”