I guess the "build it and they will come" fab investment policy was faith based all along!

expedite the apocalypse by becoming slaves of a society governed by automatons

The 2010s were the rise of ad tech for products and services, the 2020s are essentially LLMs creating ad tech again but for ideas.

My first thought was this blog article I saw on HN a while back:

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/should-we-use-llms-for-ch...

He argued, persuasively I thought, that "this is an area where truthfulness is of paramount importance" and consequently would be extremely ill-suited to AI.

Topical: https://hex.ooo/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.html

    “Your Mark V Computer can carry out any routine 
    mathematical operation involving up to ten digits. 
    However, for our work we are interested in letters, 
    not numbers. As we wish you to modify the output 
    circuits, the machine will be printing words, not 
    columns of figures.”

In his commentary on Gen AI, Yuval Hariri points out that the initial type of publication that proliferated after the printing press was not scientific, but instead witch hunting manuals.

Perhaps Intel's ex CEO isn't attempting to incite oppression of non-Christians through AI, but his references to bringing about Christian Judgement Day as his main goal suggest exactly that.

After all, why would God need his help through technology (whether swords, ships, or AI) to hasten the second coming?

Ask the AI for all the falsehoods and contradictions. Ask it how you can tell a false prophet from a real one. This Christianity stuff has poetry in it but the religion and the texts are far apart. Exactly which laws of the Old Testament were voided? Or must Christians abide by them all? Was the Tower of Babel's destruction just a fleeting tantrum? Who did Cain marry if there were no other women? How did Noah get all the scorpions and biting insects? Thanks for the bedbugs and typhoid, dude. Generally an incoherent scheme.