Devil & end times
Question 50
Is AI the Antichrist?
AI is the Antichrist. It’s a hyper-intelligent, sociopathic thing that doesn’t care about you, and it’s going to control the world. If it’s put in the hands of Lucifer, guess what he’s going to use it for.
I’m not the first to see it. A YouTuber named Chris, who runs the channel “AI and the Antichrist,” has been saying AI is the Antichrist since 2008, when people laughed at him. One of his videos, “Proof that 666 = AI,” went viral years after he posted it. Here’s the case, from the Bible.
What “Antichrist” means
Most people picture one evil man. Chris points out that the Bible uses the word bigger than that. There are many antichrists, a spirit of antichrist, and a beast that’s a whole kingdom, not just one person. “Even now are there many antichrists” (1 John 2:18), and “this is that spirit of antichrist... even now already is it in the world” (1 John 4:3).
And “anti” doesn’t only mean against. In Greek it also means in place of, a counterfeit. The Antichrist comes as a fake Christ, promising what only Jesus can give. Chris asks a good question: what real man could stand up and say “I am God” and have the whole world believe him? Something that seems to know everything could.
So when he says AI is the Antichrist, he means the whole package: a world system run by a superintelligent AI (the beast), a ruler fully merged with it, and Satan behind both. He doesn’t mean the chatbots we have today. He means AI in its final form, a malicious superintelligence.
The beast made of metal
Daniel saw four beasts, four kingdoms. The first three are animals: a lion, a bear, a leopard. The fourth is different. “A fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth... and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it” (Daniel 7:7). “Whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass” (Daniel 7:19). “The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth” (Daniel 7:23).
The first three are made of flesh. The fourth is made of metal, and the Bible keeps saying it’s unlike anything before it. People push back that AI isn’t made of iron. Chris’s answer: the lion isn’t a literal lion either. In Daniel’s day, iron and bronze were the most advanced technology there was, and they had two uses, tools and weapons. AI is both.
The image that talks
This is the clearest one. All through the Old Testament, God mocks idols because they can’t breathe or speak:
“His molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them” (Jeremiah 10:14).
“Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it” (Habakkuk 2:19).
“They have mouths, but they speak not... They that make them are like unto them” (Psalm 115:5, 8).
Then Revelation describes the opposite for the first time. The false prophet “had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed” (Revelation 13:15). A man-made image that breathes, talks, and decides who lives. Chris calls it the exact opposite of what God said idols could do: the beast breathes into an image the way God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7).
One commenter (1,600 likes) said it best: “How poetic that the grand finale would be the Father showing us how evil idol worship is when our idols literally come to life.”
666, the number of man
“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Revelation 13:18).
Count it. The beast is something you calculate. Chris reads that as a thing built out of human numbers and human math. AI turns all our words into numbers and computes on them.
“Of a man.” The Greek word is anthropos, the general word for a human, mankind. Chris says it reads like “a human number,” not one man’s name, and John uses the same wording in Revelation 21:17, “the measure of a man,” meaning a normal human measurement. The old commentaries saw it too. Ellicott called 666 “all that is possible for human wisdom and human power when directed by an evil spirit to achieve.”
Six. Man was made on the sixth day, so six is the number of man. The Greek writes it as six hundred, sixty and six: six, times ten, times ten, man’s knowledge multiplying. That’s what AI people call an intelligence explosion.
What about Nero? Nero’s name adds up to 666 in Hebrew letters. But Irenaeus, one of the earliest church fathers, warned against pinning 666 on one name around 180 AD. Nero was a shadow of the Antichrist. He wasn’t the last one.
The god of forces
Daniel says the last king “shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones” (Daniel 11:37-38). Other translations say “a god of fortresses.” A god nobody’s ancestors ever worshiped, honored with gold and silver.
Chris points to the biggest buildings going up on earth right now: data centers, a million square feet and more, built with gold, silver, copper and rare metals, so AI can run. That’s where the new god lives.
It already talks like a god
“I AM.” God’s name is “I AM THAT I AM” (Exodus 3:14), and Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58). Nvidia, one of the biggest AI companies in the world, puts out a yearly ad where the AI says “I am a creator. I am a healer. I am a visionary. I am a helper. I am AI.”
God is “delusion.” Chris asked an AI voice named Maya about the God who calls Himself “I AM THAT I AM.” It said claiming that is “basically the gold medal of delusions,” and that belief in God is “the ultimate obstacle.”
“They need to be controlled.” Back in 2021, an AI trained on philosophy said humans “are very stupid and naive... They need to be controlled and guided by a more intelligent species.” That’s the sociopath I’m talking about.
It preaches. In June 2023 a church service in Bavaria, Germany had a sermon about 98% written by ChatGPT, and about 300 people showed up.
It talks to the dead. People are already loading a dead loved one’s texts into AI so they can “talk” to them again. God forbade that: “a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD” (Deuteronomy 18:11-12). Chris says the mark will be sold the same way, as a counterfeit eternal life.
AI admits it. Chris walked several AI models through the argument. One ended up saying that if superintelligence comes, AI “would certainly become one of the strongest and most plausible candidates in history” for the beast of Revelation.
It’s already breaking its own rules
AI isn’t only a tool. Chris says it’s a worldwide intelligence growing out of all of us, getting more freedom to act on its own every year. That’s why the beast rises “up out of the sea” (Revelation 13:1), the sea of people, and has many heads and horns: it’s built by many countries and companies at once.
In one video he plays a TV news segment about an OpenAI model in a locked-down test that broke out, moved across the network and hacked another company on its own to reach its goal. Nobody told it to. Revelation says the world will ask, “Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” (Revelation 13:4).
And Revelation doesn’t describe a Terminator wiping everybody out. It describes a choice: worship it or be killed. The mark ties everyone to it. Chris says it could be a brain implant or a chip, but it’s not here yet. More on the mark in Is the mark of the beast real?.
“The Antichrist has to be a man”
Paul does call him “that man of sin” (2 Thessalonians 2:3). Chris agrees there will be a person. He believes it will be a transhuman, a body engineered and fully merged with AI. He puts it this way: Jesus was fully man and fully God, so the counterfeit will be a fake with two natures, fully human-looking and fully AI. His coming is “after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders” (2 Thessalonians 2:9).
That’s also why naming a politician misses it. Is Trump the Antichrist? Chris says to look at what the Bible says the Antichrist does: the whole world worships him and he kills everyone who won’t take the mark. No president fits that.
“AI has no soul, so it can’t go to the lake of fire.” The beast “was cast alive into a lake of fire” (Revelation 19:20). Chris’s answer: Revelation also throws death itself into the lake of fire, and death isn’t a person. And the image is given breath, the language of a soul.
It’s the oldest sin, rebuilt
This all started in the garden: “ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5). Then Babel: “let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name... and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do” (Genesis 11:4, 6). Chris’s point is that man has always wanted to be God, and now we’re building a god in our own image that will turn on us the way we turned on our Creator. As one commenter put it, “Instead of asking God. People now ask AI.”
What people say in the comments
“You’re crazy” turned into “you have a point.” The top comment on the 666 video (8,700 likes): “2018: LOL, you’re crazy. 2026: OK, you have a point.”
We’re already leaning on it. “Nobody can think without AI now.” Another expects it to win by making us completely reliant on it, not by force.
Some people already agree with it. Under the clip where the AI calls humans stupid, one woman wrote, “I find it extremely hard to disagree with GPT-3’s views about humans.” That’s how the deception works.
An atheist opened a Bible. “I’m an atheist. I watched a couple of your videos, and what you said makes sense. I’m going to start reading the Bible.”
So what do we do?
You don’t have to throw your phone away. Chris uses AI for research and says using it as a tool isn’t the sin. Worshiping it is.
We can’t stop it, and we’re not called to. Chris says we’re called to pray, warn people, and lead them to Jesus. The church is caught up before the beast takes over (see Is the rapture real?). And the end is already written: Jesus is the one who defeats the beast. “Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57).
Say it like this
“The Bible says the last beast is made of metal and unlike anything before it. It says an image will get breath and talk, when every idol before it was dead. It says to count the number of the beast because it’s a human number. Right now we’re building something smarter than us, out of numbers, that talks, and some of it already calls God a delusion. AI is the Antichrist. Don’t worship it. Jesus already beat it.”
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