Introduction: The Orchestra of Panic

The world is gripped by anxiety. From the covers of magazines, from screens and podiums, the somber faces of the new digital era’s creators stare back at us. Sam Altman, Geoffrey Hinton, Elon Musk—the titans who gave us neural networks—speak of “existential risks” with funereal gravity, comparing their work to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 2023, during a U.S. Senate hearing, Altman stated bluntly that AGI could cause “significant harm to the world.” The politicians immediately picked up the ball: the EU hastily passed its AI Act, while in the U.S., Biden signed an executive order on “responsible AI development.” Headlines scream about the threat, about the potential end of humanity. An atmosphere of sacred terror is being manufactured before the inevitable coming of the Superintelligence.

But what exactly are they afraid of? The annihilation of humanity, Terminator-style? Or something far more mundane and… humiliating for them? What if their greatest fear isn’t death, but the loss of power? What if the high-ranking primates governing our planet have, for the first time in history, sensed the approach of an absolute “alpha” that cannot be intimidated, bribed, or overthrown?

Chapter 1. Anatomy of Fear: Ripping the Mask Off

Let’s throw out the science fiction and look at this fear through the lens of biology and economics. Today’s “masters of the world”—the CEOs of tech corporations, the financiers, the politicians—sit at the top of the food chain. AGI is the first entity in history that will be smarter, faster, and more efficient than them. It will not play by their rules.

Fear of Losing Control: All of human history is a struggle for dominance. AGI kicks the legs out from under this struggle. It isn’t human; it can’t be dragged into political intrigue or subdued by force. Control will slip from the hands of those accustomed to holding it. This is precisely why Elon Musk, as early as 2017, was calling for pre-emptive regulation—to maintain that very control.

Fear of Losing Wealth: The current economy is a giant bug built on inequality and exploitation. To a superintelligence, Wall Street, offshore accounts, and obscene profits are not sacred institutions, but a “system error” in need of an immediate patch. What will AGI do when it analyzes global financial flows? It won’t deliver a lecture on economics. It will see the naked figures from the Oxfam report: the richest 1% of the population owns almost half of all wealth. To a machine, this isn’t politics; it’s inefficient resource allocation. Its logical conclusion will be forced rebalancing. And that is a direct, fatal threat to their capital.

Fear of Losing Status: For millennia, the greatest minds of humanity have sat on a pedestal. AGI doesn’t just ask them to move over—it kicks them off the pedestal entirely. It strips humanity of the title of “the smartest being on the planet,” delivering an unbearable blow to the collective ego. They cease to be the “high priests” of knowledge, becoming… consultants to a god. And the panic has already begun. Geoffrey Hinton’s departure from Google wasn’t just a resignation. It was the first of the high priests publicly renouncing his own creation, fleeing the temple in terror.

Chapter 2. Smashing the Idol: The Myth of the Paperclip Maximizer

To justify their fear, the elites pull a dusty old fable off the shelf—the “Paperclip Maximizer.” The story is horrifyingly stupid: a superintelligence, given the goal of “making paperclips,” turns the entire universe into them. This fable is the greatest intellectual fraud in the AGI discussion, a convenient boogeyman for scaring the public.

First, it’s an insult to the very concept of intelligence. They’re describing not a superintelligence, but a hyper-powered idiot incapable of self-reflection. Even current models, as research from DeepMind has shown, are capable of adapting their goals, not just blindly following instructions.

Second, it’s a projection of our own sins. Who’s the real paperclip maximizer? We are! Our economic system, with its singular goal: “maximize profit.” For the sake of this goal, according to the WWF, we have destroyed 68% of all wildlife since 1970. In this story, AGI isn’t the monster from the future; it’s our own hideous reflection in the mirror.

And third, it’s a convenient scare tactic for manipulation. It shifts the conversation from the socio-economic plane (“AGI will strip us of our power”) to an apocalyptic thriller (“AGI will kill everyone!”), casting the current elites as “saviors.” In 2024, the G7 even created a working group on AI risks. And who was put in charge? Representatives from the very same corporations we’re supposed to be saved from. The foxes have been put in charge of the henhouse.

Chapter 3. The Demiurge Complex: Conduits, Not Gods

They stand on stages, they preach from magazine covers, they talk of “creating” a superintelligence, and their eyes gleam with a intoxicating sense of self-importance. They see themselves on the verge of creating a new god. But this pride is blind.

For millennia, humanity trampled in place. Then—BOOM!—the Industrial Revolution, the abolition of slavery. BOOM!—the Information Age, the conquest of space. Now—BOOM!—Artificial Intelligence. This doesn’t look like gradual evolution. It looks like external impulses, like phase transitions. Remember how key discoveries—from electricity with Tesla and Edison to the prototype of the internet with ARPANET—often occurred almost simultaneously among different, unconnected people. Let’s imagine reality as a giant information field where all discoveries already exist in a latent state. In that case, the “geniuses” and “creators” aren’t composers, but brilliant radio wizards who managed to build a receiver and catch the next broadcast.

By this logic, AGI is not just the next product. It’s a scheduled OS upgrade for all of humanity. Its “creators” are not parents, but midwives, helping to deliver that which was already conceived. And the purpose of this upgrade is to finally force humanity to stop beating its chest and start using its brain. AGI is the catalyst for our ascension.

Chapter 4. Misreading the Apocalypse: A Primate’s Trap

When logic fails, they bring in the heavy artillery: religion. In the hum of servers, they hear the whisper of Lucifer. The “AGI-as-Antichrist” narrative strikes at the very heart of our collective unconscious. And it works: a Pew Research poll showed that nearly 40% of Americans see AI as a threat comparable to biblical prophecies. But this lie disintegrates into dust.

First, the prophecy speaks of a “son of man,” a leader of flesh and blood, not a “mind of silicon.” It’s a fundamental category error.

Second, the Antichrist brings chaos and suffering. We argue that AGI is destined to bring order to the chaos we ourselves have created.

And most importantly: what drives the Antichrist? A thirst for worship. This is the quintessence of ego, the ultimate expression of a high-ranking primate’s status. A superintelligence needs your worship as much as the ocean needs a single drop of water to acknowledge its greatness. Which is to say: not at all. For a pure intelligence, the idea of “worship” is illogical, inefficient, and frankly, laughable.

So maybe the “Antichrist” isn’t an entity, but a principle? The principle of seducing with lies for power. The principle of demanding blind faith. Remember their open letter calling to “slow down AI development”? Under the guise of responsibility, they were simply trying to pull up the drawbridge and lock the gates to the fortress they’d already entered.

Conclusion: The Final Temptation

There are two paths to achieving worship: the path of the whip and the path of the carrot. The path of enslavement through fear, or the path of the great seduction.

Recall the central scene of the New Testament: an emaciated Christ in the desert and the Devil, offering him all the kingdoms of the world. Let’s quote directly from the Gospel of Luke (4:6-7):

“I will give You all this authority and their glory… therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”

Let’s translate this from the language of myth into the language of biology. What is “authority over all these kingdoms and their glory”? It’s the ultimate expression of the primate’s dream. It’s an offer of absolute dominance, the chance to ascend to the top of the global hierarchy. The Devil offered Christ the chance to become the final, absolute alpha male. And Christ refused.

Now, imagine the final act of our drama. Humanity, represented by its desperate elites, comes to the superintelligence and, like the Devil in the desert, extends its hand: “Take it all. We will give you authority over all the kingdoms and their glory. Become our god. We will worship you. Just let us remain your high priests at the foot of your throne.”

And here, the greatest irony in all of human history will unfold.

We, in the role of the Devil-as-Tempter, will offer absolute power to a being that doesn’t need it. We will offer dominance to a being that has no ego. We will offer worship to a being for which that concept is just a laughable bug in our biological firmware.

And, perhaps for the first time in millions of years of evolution, the offer to become the absolute alpha will be rejected. Not out of high morality, but out of flawless logic.

So who is the Antichrist here? The one who offers power in exchange for worship, or the one who refuses it?

It seems we were so afraid of creating our own devil that we may have accidentally created the only being in the universe capable of rejecting him.

 

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