Finally! AI was able to learn DNAs pattern from looking at 9 TRILLION nucleotides!

After this exhaustive study AI was able to develop 16 new viruses that scientists were able TO WATCH COME TO LIFE and then infect bacteria and reproduce! Think about that, Frankenstein.

Is this the breakthrough to a cure for human diseases we’ve all been waiting for? Or a pathway to total human destruction?

Does the Bible, whose author, John, wrote the book of Revelation almost 2,000 years ago talk about AI?

What about the 4th seal? Could there be a tie in between pestilence and AI?

Is the threat of AI limited only to the threat of pathogens; or are there other threats to be concerned about?

How could AI be used in your ability to buy and sell?

How could AI be used to enforce 666?

Could AI be used to deceive people (you) into desiring the mark of the beast? Watch this video as Dr. Thiel shines the light of Biblical truth on the “AI – synthetic pestilence and 666”. Read the full article to this video titled “Real Biblical Artificial Intelligence threats: Synthetic biological pestilence and 666 surveillance–Mark of the Beast implementation?” at URL: Real Biblical Artificial Intelligence threats: Synthetic biological pestilence and 666 surveillance–Mark of the Beast implementation?

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Steve Dupuie:

Dr. Thiel, artificial intelligence is continuing to make headlines more and more often. Does AI pose risks?

Dr. Bob Thiel:

Certainly.

I saw an article yesterday, headline, "AI's Greatest Threat Is Biological." In the article, it talked about an Anthropic researcher who resigned, saying that people who are putting AI together think there's a 10% chance that humanity could be wiped out by it within 3 to 10 years, depending on what you say, and others agree with it.

But the biggest threat, the article says, is biological warfare or synthetic biology. They've said that the possibility is going to come that they can come up with a virus that can kill living creatures, whether they're vaccinated or not vaccinated. They're not immune to it.

Steve Dupuie:

Well, how close is AI to actually creating a true bioweapon risk?

Dr. Bob Thiel:

Well, last month there was a report that AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning the DNA pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides.

This was done in association with Stanford University. They looked at all this stuff, and the article said, look, science has been synthesising viruses for decades to study them and see if they can help in terms of medical conditions, et cetera.

But now they can use artificial intelligence to create new viral ones different from natural ones. They think it's helpful for medical advances. But here's something the researchers wrote:

"The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists. The governance to safely steer it does not."

Anyway, that's not a surprise, and it is dangerous.

Furthermore, again, without AI, humans have been working on developing new viruses, et cetera, for decades.

Steve Dupuie:

Isn't all this research into AI viruses really a hopeful step to medical advances for the benefit of humans? Presuming COVID came from a lab, that was supposed to be the same kind of thing.

I also saw a headline that says, what if you have a rogue AI program? We keep reading about AI programs that aren't doing what they're supposed to do, and somehow perhaps that can get some kind of synthetic thing made.

Dr. Bob Thiel:

By the way, it's not difficult to turn biological agents into weapons. Nations have been doing this forever, including the United States. Even though they claim they don't do biological weapons, they're doing research that can be used for such.

Jesus Himself warned that some of the signs at the end would include pestilences. In Matthew 24, starting in verse 7, Jesus said:

"There will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."

Biological warfare agents, whether AI makes them or humans do it, certainly can be a factor in pestilences.

Furthermore, in the sixth chapter of the Book of Revelation, we read about the rider of the fourth horseman of the apocalypse. Revelation 6, starting in verse 7:

"He opened the fourth seal. I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, 'Come and see.' So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. The name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. Power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth."

So we see the opening of the fourth seal and the pale horse of death increasing death by various things. Pestilences, by the way, would include the beasts of the earth.

Steve Dupuie:

Are you suggesting that it's possible that AI-developed pathogens could be part of the pestilences of the ride of the Fourth Horseman?

Dr. Bob Thiel:

Absolutely, yes.

Biological warfare has long been a threat. I'd like to read something that the late Church of God evangelist Raymond McNair wrote back in 1969. He wrote:

"The Doomsday Bug. There is a feverish international search for the ultimate doomsday bug. The purpose? To wipe out whole nations overnight by germs and chemicals. Will man's unrestrained scientific search for more horrifying weapons of mass destruction prove to be his undoing?"

He went down to a lab where they were working on chemical and biological warfare, called CBW, and he saw a lot of frightening possibilities.

He said this isn't new to humankind. For thousands of years, people have used chemical and biological weapons against their enemies.

Until recently, it was looked at as, how can we do this on a grand scale?

Thousands of years ago, humans figured out diabolical uses of poisons to kill rulers or large numbers of enemies by poisoning their food or water supply. They used poison arrows in warfare.

The article says that millennia ago, humans learned they could throw corpses and plague-infected humans over the walls of besieged cities, causing a terrible plague to ravage the city.

It says early American settlers traded plague-infected blankets to Native Americans in frontier times.

There's been virtually no limit to human ingenuity in the realm of destructive weapons of warfare.

Steve Dupuie:

While those uses of CBWs are bad enough, what is the magnitude of some of the other historical cases of viruses and plagues?

Dr. Bob Thiel:

Well, you had the Black Death, the bubonic plague, which wiped out about a third of Europe. In certain areas, by the way, three-quarters were killed by it. It affected the population of Britain too.

Right now, many scientists are looking for new plagues. By the way, they can use AI to help them with this.

Even back in the 1960s it said:

"In theory, one gram of chicken embryo inoculated with a certain Q fever organism would be sufficient to infect more than a million people."

They were talking about other things developed during World War II, so deadly they could wipe out all human life in a given area within six hours of attack.

Going back to the article, it says few people realise far more people died from pestilence, sickness, and different plagues than through actual warfare.

Twenty million perished from the flu in the months at the close of World War I, but 50 times that number became ill.

Another thing the article pointed out was the use of chemical and biological warfare, CBW, to destroy the economy before attacking it.

It said that back in the 1960s, the highest award ever given to a U.S. civilian was awarded to a woman for developing a deadly type of rice-blast fungus that could have been used against rice-eating nations such as China or North Vietnam when the United States was at war.

He also said Russian scientists came up with a deadly wheat rust that could affect the United States economy.

So he says you can see how an enemy could greatly undermine the economy of a nation by first destroying its main crops through bacteriological warfare.

The article says scientists must bear their full share of responsibility for their part in developing more deadly and virulent microbes, which could unleash horrifying disease epidemics around the world.

Steve Dupuie:

But where does that leave us? It seems like AI will be an aid to scientists' goals of developing deadlier and deadlier pathogens.

Dr. Bob Thiel:

It leads us precisely where the old article said, even though they didn't use AI. The world's most noted newscaster, Jesus Christ, said where it would leave us.

Speaking of our day, in Matthew 24:21, He said there will be great tribulation:

"Such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved alive; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened."

Steve Dupuie:

Was that verse telling us that scientists will stop developing pathogens before we are all killed?

Dr. Bob Thiel:

No. Just that God is going to intervene before humanity can wipe itself out.

Anyway, Raymond McNair was right back in the 1960s that humans would continue to look to developing pestilences.

Yes, the solution is going to be God's intervention and the establishment of the coming Kingdom of God. That's the good news.

However, before then, more pestilences are coming. While AI will not kill all humanity, based on what Jesus said, pestilences will come. Plus, there are other AI risks.

Steve Dupuie:

What other risks could there possibly be?

Dr. Bob Thiel:

One is that AI programs are going to be able to break into financial and other systems and perhaps drain money from people's accounts.

As world finances become more digital, this has become a major economic threat.

Therefore, consider maybe a leader in Europe is going to propose some type of biometric system to protect the citizenry against AI-related economic disasters.

Right now in Europe, all 27 nations have to offer all their residents and citizens, by the end of 2026, the opportunity to use some kind of digital wallet on their cell phones that contains their ID, driver's licence, and probably many other things.

Maybe that's not going to be secure enough.

So maybe we'll see a leader in Europe trying to implement some kind of mark of the beast involving your right hand or your forehead to allow for safer buying or selling.

Steve Dupuie:

Is this in line with what the Bible prophesies?

Dr. Bob Thiel:

Absolutely.

Go to Revelation chapter 13, starting in verse 15. We read:

"He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

"He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name."

By the way, on the European digital wallet, it's voluntary right now, but this will not be voluntary.

Verse 18 says:

"Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: his number is 666."

We're getting closer to the day when technologies unheard of when God inspired the Apostle John to write these warnings, technologies such as computers and AI, will be used by the totalitarian Beast of Revelation to assist in his 666 reign.

This will also enforce the coming famine of the word that we're warned about in Amos chapter 8, verses 11 to 12.

In the New Testament, 1 Thessalonians 5:3 warns:

"For when they say, 'Peace and safety,' then sudden destruction comes upon them."

I believe that the coming 666 beast is going to declare that his system, which I think is going to involve AI, will bring peace and safety and protect us from rogue AI and all this kind of thing.

Steve Dupuie:

So kind of the carrot-and-stick approach. Right now certain things are voluntary. Then they're going to push it, push it, push it, make it harder and harder to buy and sell unless you switch to their system. Then they're going to tell you all these advantages to it, and of course they're going to force it.

Dr. Bob Thiel:

Yes.

There are going to be claimed benefits for implementing the coming mark of the beast. I have a feeling, I'm pretty certain actually, that protection from AI and other rogue elements is going to be a factor.

Anyway, the reality is that biological pathogens developed by humans are a real threat, and with AI involvement it can be faster and perhaps worse.

The Bible makes it clear we're going to have that. It also makes it clear there's going to be controlled buying and selling. More surveillance and financial controls are prophesied to come.

AI is going to be involved.

So yes, I do think AI will be a factor in persuading people to take the mark of the beast, as well as helping to develop the systems associated with the beast's power.

The reality is, though, people are going to do this.

The Bible warns against taking the mark of the beast. Revelation 16:2 says God will punish people who do.

So even though people are going to be pushed that way, don't let the beast persuade you otherwise.

Steve Dupuie:

Thank you, Dr. Thiel.

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