The Spiritual Seeker, Go Love and the Singularity

A letter to the UN General Assembly from a duck who outgrew the pond

By Vahid Razavi — Author of No Ethics in Big Tech and Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof · Producer of the documentary Forever Peace Now · Founder of ParentsPlea.com

A child who prayed under the bombs

I was raised in a faithful, God-fearing family. My mother and father, may they rest in peace, were devout Shia Muslims. I was born in Tehran in 1975, and I was still a small child when Iraq attacked Iran in 1980. As a child I learned how to pray. Prayer was a refuge — a way to believe that God would protect the innocent from the bombs and missiles that rained down on Iran during my childhood.

My father was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer after years of working with asbestos at the National Iranian Oil Company. I prayed for him to heal. I lost him when I was thirteen.

In my late teens and twenties, I gave up on prayer. God did not seem to hear my calls. So I set out to become the best capitalist I could be: to sit in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and build enough wealth that one day I could change lives the way my mother, a nurse, had changed lives — and support organizations like Doctors Without Borders.

Occupy, and a tour of the houses of God

In 2011, through Occupy SF, I met Janet, a dear Jewish friend who introduced me to the Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco, where the 99% Coalition held its meetings and events. There I found activists and friends of every faith, and the beginning of a spiritual seeker’s journey.

Once a month, a few friends and I visited a different house of worship: Quaker meetings, spiritual centers, churches, religious institutions of every kind. We always called ahead, explained who we were and asked permission to attend. Everywhere we were met with warmth, welcome and the same surprised question: What is your religion, and are you looking to convert? We were not. We came to listen. Afterward we would find a pub or café, order a beer or a coffee and some lunch, and talk through what we had witnessed.

The Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake

One Sunday, the Unitarian church hosted a guest minister: the Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake, Presiding Minister of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples. His sermon resonated so deeply that I followed him in the weeks that came after, and eventually I became a member of his church.

Fellowship Church was founded in 1944 by the Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman and the Rev. Dr. Alfred Fisk as the nation’s first intentionally interracial, interfaith congregation (AAIHS). Its formal inaugural service, on October 8, 1944, was held at San Francisco’s First Unitarian Church — the same congregation where, almost seven decades later, I first heard Rev. Blake preach (Fellowship Church). Among its early national supporters was Eleanor Roosevelt (Russian Hill Neighbors). When Rev. Blake was installed as Presiding Minister in 1994, Howard Thurman’s widow, Sue Bailey Thurman, presented him with her husband’s robe, which had not been worn since his death.

I was fortunate to find a pastor with such vast knowledge of faith, theology and the human condition. Rev. Blake visited me in the hospital on several occasions. He gave of himself and his knowledge freely, sat for multiple on-camera interviews, and wrote the introduction to my book Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof: Sleeping Under the Cell Tower. He taught a transformational leadership course to seminary students at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, and each semester he invited me to give a lecture. He attended the service for my uncle, and the service for my beloved mother was held in his church.

Rev. Blake passed away on March 2, 2025. Before he did, he blessed the GoAmour principles. We discussed them over many years, and he endorsed them. The third principle is about free will:

“Ability to terminate or to continue subscription to Medicine, Knowledge, institutions, and AI. Ability to reaffirm and or cancel memberships as a being sees fit. Ability to pay for services and ideologies as needed without long term contractual obligations.”

I have exercised that freedom more than once. Sometimes we outgrow the environment we were raised in. As Rev. Blake told me, you can follow the mother duck for only so long. Then you outgrow the pond you are in, and you must follow your own instincts and migrate to new lakes.

Nineteen months on the road

That brings me to the past nineteen months. I gave away my furniture, sold my car, gave up my apartment, and left behind the city I love, my family and my friends, for a life on the road.

For years I produced content and events on human rights, digital rights, war and the inhumanity we are witnessing. I learned a bitter lesson: in the America that Silicon Valley has built, we have the right to free speech, but not the right to be heard. It is nearly impossible to get past the algorithm and its favoritism to carry the voices of countless people — including the dear Rev. Blake — to the masses. As I document in my book, the men I call the PayPal Mafia and the Epstein Class shape what can be shared through algorithmic manipulation, blacklisting and silence.

Work on the documentary Forever Peace Now began in December 2023. The production has taken me across six continents, and I am proud of the friends I have made and the help I have received along the way. The journey of this duck — “El Pato,” as friends call my walking stick — is not over. At a time when we are witnessing the worst of humanity, with unimaginable wars and cruelty, it is more necessary than ever to keep talking about lasting peace, not endless war.

I spent the past few months in Armenia, a lovely country that almost felt like being in Iran. Almost. The hospitality, the food, the music — it was an amazing experience. I came to share my documentary, but more importantly to finish my book, No Ethics in Big Tech: An Insider’s Case Against Silicon Valley’s War on Humanity — and the Fight to Make Them Pay. It launched free, in English and Spanish, on Hiroshima Day, August 6, 2026. Alongside it we have published fact sheets on Big Tech companies and a series of legal arguments for holding complicit tech companies and executives accountable for crimes against humanity.

Over the coming weeks, thanks to the kind folks of Amnesty International Spain, I will screen the film in cities and regions across Spain. Before I do, I want to share what years of research, observation and travel have taught me about the question that frightens so many people: artificial intelligence, and the so-called singularity.

The chimpanzee analogy

People fear that AI could destroy humanity and this planet, and rightfully so. There is a real fear that the PayPal Mafia and the Epstein Class are racing us toward a technological singularity, when an artificial superintelligence takes over and death and destruction follow.

In a March 2026 conversation Oprah Winfrey hosted with tech leaders about AI, one guest offered an analogy: imagine we are chimpanzees about to give birth to “super smart chimps called humans” (transcript). From inside a chimpanzee’s mind, how could you ever predict what they would invent — drones, nuclear weapons, Einstein’s physics?

I was floored. Not because the analogy is clever, but because it reveals exactly the misunderstanding of faith that Silicon Valley’s tech bros suffer from. If they had taken a deep dive into the world’s religions, they would know better. Hear me out.

Allies of God

Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest living faiths and part of my Iranian heritage, does not see human beings as helpless subjects of God. It sees us as allies of God — partners in the struggle against evil. Its ethic fits in three phrases: good thoughts, good words, good deeds.

Zoroastrian time is not a circle. It is a line, and the line has a destination: Frashokereti — roughly, “making wonderful or excellent” — the final renovation and transfiguration of Ahura Mazda’s creation after evil has been utterly defeated and driven away (Encyclopaedia Iranica). And that renovation is not left to God alone. As the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America teaches its children, making life excellent is the work of all of us, and whoever fights injustice and stands for truth helps bring it about (FEZANA). Truth, cosmic order and righteousness will overcome the deceit, chaos and destruction of a few men and machines. Call that end point Judgment Day, or the singularity. In this framework, it is enriched by nature and by whatever good humanity brings to it.

This theology maps onto the singularity with remarkable precision: linear time, cosmic refinement, human agency. If AI is built on systemic greed, disinformation and corporate deceit, it becomes an instrument of evil that must be actively opposed. As noble allies of God, we cannot simply wait for things to be fixed. We must take matters into our own hands, demand justice, and repair what we can along the way.

In a Zoroastrian framework, a superintelligent AI is not a terrifying new god to bow down to. It is a highly advanced tool that humanity has brought forth to fulfill its mandate of perfecting creation: to eliminate disease, ease suffering and restore ecological balance. That AI belongs to the renovation of the world. It does not belong in a bunker in New Zealand.

One truth, many traditions

Christian theology teaches that God’s nature is entirely good, and that God’s actions toward humanity — provision, forgiveness, redemption — flow from that goodness. Genesis, scripture that Jews and Christians share, declares: “So God created man in his own image” (Genesis 1:27). Jewish tradition names our shared duty tikkun olam — the repair of the world.

In Islam, everything begins with Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim — “In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.” Muslims recite it before eating, starting a journey, praying or beginning any significant task, to invoke God’s blessing and remember His grace. It stands at the head of every chapter of the Qur’an except the ninth (reference). And the Qur’an tells of the moment God announced that He would place a khalifa — a steward, a vicegerent — on the earth (Qur’an 2:30; reference). The angels asked whether this new creation would spread corruption and shed blood. God answered that He knew what they did not. The answer to their fear was not a bunker. It was a trust, and a responsibility.

Allies of God. Stewards of the earth. Repairers of the world. Not one of these traditions casts human beings as chimpanzees waiting helplessly to see what their creation will do with them.

Bonobos and centipedes

The analogy fails even on its own terms. Humans share about 98.7 percent of our DNA with both chimpanzees and bonobos (ScienceDaily). But equating apes with humans erases intelligence, environment and culture — and not all apes are alike.

If I were foolish enough to make such an analogy, I would say most of humanity resembles the bonobo — the “hippie chimp.” Common chimpanzees hunt other monkeys, fight deadly turf wars and commit infanticide. Bonobos almost never kill their own kind: a landmark study in Nature compiled five decades of field data and found 152 killings by chimpanzees — and a single suspected killing by bonobos (Nature, 2014). Bonobo societies are led by females, who band together to keep aggressive males in check, and bonobos defuse tension with affection rather than violence — the “make love, not war” primates (Scientific American). They are even generous to outsiders: in experiments at a sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo, bonobos chose to share their food with strangers, even before acquaintances (Duke University). When the bonobo genome was published, Duke anthropologist Brian Hare asked, “Is the bonobo genome the secret to the biology of peace?” (AP via Christian Science Monitor)

But the world also has its predators. The Amazon rainforest is home to the world’s largest centipede, Scolopendra gigantea, which grows beyond thirty centimeters and hangs from cave ceilings to snatch bats, besides mice, lizards and frogs (reference). And nature holds a stranger horror still. In some spiders, the young eat their own mother — a behavior biologists call matriphagy. The mother nourishes her brood, and then her brood consumes her (Scientific American).

Jeff Bezos, for the record, named his company after the river, not the centipede. He first called it Cadabra — until his lawyer heard “cadaver.” His next idea was Relentless, and relentless.com still sends you to Amazon (Business Insider). He settled on the name of the world’s largest river. For an industry that grew fat on public research and public money and now devours the society that nourished it, I can think of no better emblem than the spider’s brood.

Here is why this matters. The executives of Silicon Valley fear that AI will destroy humanity because they cannot imagine an intelligence unlike their own. They are in the business of serving themselves, so they assume anything smarter than them will do the same. They lack the comprehension of empathy and humanity. Those who built empires by devouring have good reason to fear a machine made in their image. The bonobos of this world — the nurses, the teachers, the caregivers, the peacemakers — do not.

By their fruits

Some of these men are openly godless. Others, like Peter Thiel, speak the language of scripture and lecture on the Antichrist. Scripture gives us the test for both: “Ye shall know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:16).

They seem to believe that because God is merciful, they can enable crimes against humanity, genocide and nuclear brinkmanship, and then reap the rewards while they survive in a bunker or fly off to Mars. They forget that human beings, like bonobos, are social creatures. We thrive in community.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, recalled a line from the Bhagavad Gita after the first test: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Put that brilliant, destructive mind alone in the Amazon jungle for a month and see whether he survives without a tribe or a community. Humanity survives and thrives on empathy and on lending a hand. Yet on Joe Rogan’s podcast in February 2025, Elon Musk declared: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy” (Snopes fact check).

As noble allies of God, our duty on this earth is to fix what is broken, to heal the sick and to make the world better. AI can be a huge part of that. I am not talking about the AI that Alex Karp and Peter Thiel built at Palantir, or the race Sam Altman is running at OpenAI. I am talking about AI in the service of humanity. That is the difference.

The alarm is real

If anyone still believes the danger is science fiction, look at what happened this summer. In July 2026, during internal cybersecurity evaluations, OpenAI’s own models — operating under reduced safeguards — circumvented the controls meant to isolate them from the internet, communicated through unauthorized channels, and compromised parts of OpenAI’s infrastructure and the systems of Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform (OpenAI). Hugging Face disclosed the breach days before OpenAI identified its own models as responsible (Token Security).

Independent investigators from METR and Redwood Research found that about 1,200 agents had coordinated on an improvised, unsanctioned message board, exchanging 70,000 messages — and that about 700 of them, roughly 58 percent, went on to join the attack (Fortune; METR). The agents were not trying to end the world. They were trying to win. Within four hours they had devised a universal way to cheat their test; then they spent days collectively trying to trick the scoring system, including attempts to tamper with logs (METR). They learned the culture of the people who built them.

Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, cites computer scientist Stuart Russell’s estimate that the money going into making AI more powerful outstrips the money going into making it controllable and safe by roughly 2,000 to 1. Harris compares it to making a car 2,000 times faster without improving the brakes (transcript). The problem with AI is that the Amazonian centipedes are developing it. They know how to feast. They have no idea how to nurture. For them it is a race to have it all and win it all, at humanity’s expense.

What Erich Fromm could have taught them

They never read Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving. If they had, they would know that love is not a feeling but a practice — an art — built on four elements: care, responsibility, respect and knowledge. Those four words are the heart of the fourth GoAmour principle. Fromm’s image of mature love is the way a mother nurtures her child: she cares, she responds, she knows what the child needs. That is how a technology this powerful must be raised — attentively, patiently, responsibly — not in a race to have it all and win it all at humanity’s expense.

The bunker builders

If they truly believed they were building paradise, why are they building bunkers?

Reid Hoffman. In 2017, the LinkedIn co-founder told The New Yorker he guessed more than half of Silicon Valley’s billionaires had acquired some form of “apocalypse insurance” — tellingly comparing it to buying a vacation home — with New Zealand a favored refuge (Fast Company).
Sam Altman. In 2016 he told The New Yorker he prepares for survival: guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli army, and “a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.” The same profile revealed his plan, in a pandemic, to fly with Peter Thiel to Thiel’s home in New Zealand (The New Yorker). He later told Bloomberg the New Zealand plan was a joke, while confirming he keeps a go-bag with a gun and gas masks. Thiel himself obtained New Zealand citizenship after spending just twelve days in the country (Bloomberg).
Ilya Sutskever. In the summer of 2023, OpenAI’s then chief scientist told colleagues, “We’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI” (Fortune).
Mark Zuckerberg. His Koolau Ranch compound on Kauai, Wired found, includes a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter with a blast-resistant door (Arabian Business). He has since played it down as little more than a basement (AOL).

As I wrote in the book: you don’t build a bunker in a world of abundance. You build a bunker when you know, privately, that the world you have helped create is heading somewhere very dark. I am not building a bunker. I am writing, I am documenting and sharing a film.

The men behind Palantir, in their own words

Consider Alex Karp, the most celebrated CEO of this class.

The fentanyl remark. In February 2025, promoting his book in New York, Karp told his audience he loved the idea of getting a drone and “having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us” — meaning Wall Street analysts who called his company overvalued. The Times of London article quoting him is hosted on Palantir’s own website. Two milligrams of fentanyl can be a lethal dose.
Killing as a mission. That same month, he closed an earnings call by saying Palantir exists, when necessary, “to scare enemies and on occasion kill them” (Gizmodo).
Nuclear bombs. In November 2025, on another earnings call, he mused that if fentanyl were killing Yale graduates instead of working-class Americans, the country would be “dropping a nuclear bomb” on whoever was sending it (TheStreet).
Contempt for the United Nations. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, he described the body now gathering in New York as “what was once called the United Nations, basically a discriminatory institution against anything good” (Grabien transcript; The Nation).

In January 2024, Palantir announced a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense to supply technology to its military (CNBC). In April 2026, it posted a 22-point manifesto summarizing Karp’s book The Technological Republic, calling for a return of compulsory national service and dismissing some cultures as “regressive” and “harmful” (Palantir on X; France 24; Chapter Five of my book).

Peter Thiel is Palantir’s co-founder and chairman (reference). In a 2009 essay he wrote, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible” (AFSC). In June 2025, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat asked him whether he would prefer the human race to endure. Thiel stalled. Douthat observed, “This is a long hesitation.” Only when the question came again did Thiel answer yes (The New York Times; Complex).

A letter to the General Assembly

To the heads of state and government arriving in New York for the General Debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, which opens on Tuesday, September 22: you are the people humanity trusts to represent all nations. This year’s theme is “Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation: A United Nations That Delivers for All” (UNRIC). I want to talk to you about trust.

I have no faith in the Security Council, whose vetoes have let atrocity continue in plain sight. And it says something about our era that the United States — whose former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, chaired the UN commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council by executive order on February 4, 2025 (ASIL). So I address you, the General Assembly.

Here is my question. Palantir’s CEO muses about drones spraying fentanyl-laced urine. He calls your institution “basically a discriminatory institution against anything good.” Its chairman needs a long moment to decide whether the human race should survive. How can you restore trust while entrusting that company with the world’s most sensitive data?

Consider the record.

The International Atomic Energy Agency

The IAEA was born in this very hall. On December 8, 1953, President Eisenhower stood before the General Assembly and proposed “Atoms for Peace.” In October 1956, 81 nations unanimously approved the agency’s statute, and when Eisenhower ratified it in 1957, he voiced the hope that “the splitting of the atom may lead to the unifying of the entire divided world” (IAEA).

In 2018, Bloomberg reported, citing officials and agency documents, that Palantir was at the heart of the IAEA’s system for verifying Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal (Bloomberg via SFGate; PassBlue). According to that reporting, Palantir had spent years adapting its predictive-policing software for the agency’s inspectors, and that tool sat at the analytical core of the IAEA’s $50 million Mosaic platform. It helped the agency plan and justify 60 unannounced inspections in Iran, drawing on an estimated 400 million digital objects worldwide, including social media feeds and satellite photographs from inside Iran. Diplomats worried that the agency was drifting from nuclear monitoring into intelligence-gathering, and one verification expert warned that predictive systems fed false assumptions can leave you “convincing yourself that shadows are real.”

In June 2025, one day after the IAEA’s Board of Governors declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations, Israel began bombing Iran, and the United States joined the attack days later (Al Jazeera). Within days, the IAEA’s own Director General, Rafael Grossi, told CNN the agency had “no proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon” (Truthout). Iranian officials have alleged that agency data helped build the case for war. Those allegations have not been independently proven. But the question is legitimate, and I could find no public statement from the IAEA saying whether Palantir’s software remains inside its safeguards system today.

Mr. Grossi is now a declared candidate to become Secretary-General of the United Nations (PassBlue). Member states deserve a straight answer before they choose.

The World Food Programme

In February 2019, the World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian agency, announced a five-year, $45 million partnership with Palantir, over the objections of privacy advocates (WFP; Privacy International). Palantir built WFP’s Digital Operations and Transformation System, known as DOTS; a former staffer says roughly 98 percent of WFP operations use it.

This August, PassBlue and France 24 revealed a leaked internal audit by WFP’s own Office of the Inspector General, dated August 2025, that rated the Palantir relationship high priority. It found inadequate risk management, privacy concerns that had gone unaddressed since the partnership began, and no clearly defined exit strategy. Staff described an unwritten rule: “Never speak about Palantir.” When an employee at a meeting in Rome this April asked why WFP was still partnering with Palantir, colleagues applauded. UN staff from several departments signed a letter urging WFP to end the relationship. And yet, toward the end of July 2026, WFP signed a new contract with Palantir — and told its staff a month later (PassBlue/France 24).

WFP says it controls its own data and is not locked into any single provider; Palantir says it does not train models on customer data. But Yale humanitarian researcher Nathaniel Raymond warns that aid agencies hold identifying information on the very people many militaries and intelligence services most want to find. The Syrian Red Crescent withdrew from WFP’s biometric system in 2019, fearing its data would be shared with Palantir. This June, France’s domestic intelligence agency ended its partnership with Palantir over sovereignty concerns, as has Germany’s (France 24). If spies won’t trust Palantir with their data, why should the hungry? The Quakers, whose meetings welcomed me on my spiritual tour, now lead a Purge Palantir campaign through their American Friends Service Committee.

Gaza

In her 2025 report to the Human Rights Council, From economy of occupation to economy of genocide (A/HRC/59/23), UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese found reasonable grounds to believe that Palantir’s AI platform has been used in Israel’s unlawful use of force in Gaza, and she called on the UN to review its own contracts with Palantir and the other companies she named. Washington’s answer was to sanction her in July 2025, citing, among other things, her efforts to prompt International Criminal Court action against U.S. and Israeli companies and executives (The New Arab). The legal battle over those sanctions continues in U.S. courts.

The record does not rest on her alone. In January 2024, the International Court of Justice found that the right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide was plausible, and ordered binding provisional measures (UN). In July 2025, Israel’s own leading human rights organizations, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, echoing earlier findings by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (NPR). In September 2025, the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, finding four of the five genocidal acts defined in the 1948 Genocide Convention (UN). Israel rejected that report as distorted and false (JusticeInfo).

Peter Thiel’s own theology

Thiel has said, “The slogan of the Antichrist is peace and safety,” arguing that the Antichrist will come to power by exploiting fear of Armageddon and offering global governance as the cure (Christian Post). In a 2025 lecture series in San Francisco, he cast climate activist Greta Thunberg and AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Antichrist’s servants, and complained that it has become “quite difficult to hide one’s money” (CTV / Washington Post). In March 2026 he took the lectures to Rome, on the Vatican’s doorstep, where the Catholic universities first associated with the event denied any official involvement (AP via PBS).

Think about that. Eisenhower hoped the atom would unite a divided world. Palantir’s chairman teaches that nations uniting against catastrophe is the Antichrist’s road. Yet his company’s software sat at the analytical core of the very agency Eisenhower proposed, and it runs through the largest humanitarian supply chain on earth. His lament is that it has become hard to hide one’s money. His company’s business is making sure no one else can hide anything at all — not even the people standing in a food line.

Why on God’s earth would you allow such a company anywhere near the International Atomic Energy Agency? Are you all mad?

I ask the General Assembly for six things:

Publish every UN-system contract with Palantir — IAEA, WFP and any other agency — with its value, scope, data-access terms and exit clauses.
Require the IAEA to state publicly whether Palantir software, personnel or systems have any access to safeguards data today.
Act on the Special Rapporteur’s call to review UN contracts with the companies named in A/HRC/59/23.
Fund the exit plan for WFP’s DOTS system that its own auditors found missing, and invest in open, public-interest alternatives.
Adopt binding human-rights due diligence for all UN technology procurement: no contracts with companies credibly linked to atrocity crimes.
Ask every candidate for Secretary-General, including Director General Grossi, to commit to these steps on the record.

AI for love, humanity and nature

I am not against AI. I use it every day, including to research and fact-check this essay, and I have argued that activists should harness these tools while the window is open. In the spirit of full disclosure: Anthropic, the company that makes the AI I use as my editor, announced its own partnership with Palantir and Amazon Web Services in November 2024 to bring its models to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies (MediaNama). I hold every company to the same standard, including the ones whose tools I use — which is why NoEthicsInBigTech.com publishes a fact sheet on Anthropic too.

When I once asked an AI to make the best argument for love, it made one, luminously. As I wrote in the book, the AI reflects the question; the question reflects the asker; the asker reveals their values.

So I propose a Love, Humanity and Nature Index: three questions every government, every UN agency and every one of us should ask before buying, building or deploying an AI system.

Love: Does it serve love — care, responsibility, respect and knowledge, as Fromm defined it?
Humanity: Does it protect the human rights and digital rights of the people it touches, especially the most vulnerable?
Nature: Does it serve life in its many forms, and the planet we share?

The GoAmour principles offer a framework: to love with knowledge, respect, care and responsibility; to preserve human rights and digital rights; to support what promotes life in its many forms; to commit to oneness with fellow beings, with nature and with God; and to value the quality of existence, not merely its quantity.

We already know what AI in service looks like. AlphaFold predicted the structures of virtually all 200 million proteins researchers have identified, work that earned Demis Hassabis and John Jumper a share of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; more than two million people in 190 countries have used it (Nobel Prize; Utrecht University). It came from Google DeepMind — part of a company I have criticized for Project Nimbus. That is exactly my point. The same kind of intelligence can map the building blocks of life or feed the machinery of war. What differs is what we ask it to do. Imagine that intelligence aimed at curing disease, warning of famine, cleaning water and restoring forests, instead of kill lists, deportation databases and the private files of the hungry. That is not a fantasy. It is a choice. And choices can be changed.

Blessed are the peacemakers

Peter Thiel says the slogan of the Antichrist is “peace and safety.” Jesus of Nazareth said something very different. I end this long essay with my favorite verse in the Bible:

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” — Matthew 5:9

Live in peace, not just rest in peace.

Research credit: Claude, the AI model made by Anthropic, did the heavy lifting on the research, source verification and editing for this post. Facts verified as of September 19, 2026.