Vice President JD Vance warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence Tuesday and said he wouldn’t be “shocked” if we were living in the “end times” and the Antichrist was walking the Earth.Vance made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview on faith with popular Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford.During the hour long sitdown, Crawford asked Vance his perspective on whether the end times are coming — or here.
“Do I think that we’re in the end times? I don’t know, and I think that it’s probably bad for me spiritually to focus too much on it because there are like things you got to do.I got to be good to my wife.
I got to be good to my kids.I have to be, you know, as good of a leader as I can for the United States of America,” Vance replied.“I think that there are, like, things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the Antichrist was, was walking among us.
But again, I try not to focus too much on it,” he said.“While I wouldn’t be shocked if we are living in the end times, what I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now, and if that leads to the end times, okay,” Vance said.The vice president, who like President Donald Trump has been a proponent of building data centers to support AI development, pointed to some uses of AI as having “really, really weird spiritual dark energy.”Referring to a friend with a spouse who was using AI for marriage counseling, Vance said, “there’s no real human feedback.
It sort of short circuits that social part of our brain where we respond to other people’s wants and needs, and just completely — like I think that’s kind of satanic.”Asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 his chances of getting into heaven, Vance said, “That is a tough question.It’s high, but it’s not 10, right? I mean, it’s it’s it’s a it’s a seven or it’s an eight.
Like I’m always one of these people who is is always going to have little doubts....