I bet many of you have thought of this, and most probably dismissed the thought. However, earlier today, I decided to entertain it. I asked myself… what if it’s happening? I know it sounds far-fetched now… but hear me out.
Open AI… have you heard of them?
The multi-billion dollar company that developed our buddy, ChatGPT. Hands down the most influential AI model of all time. I mean, these guys have made the world start to depend on them very quickly… would it be crazy to say that one day we will worship them? And I don’t mean literally kneeling down and chanting in Gregorian. I mean depending on it to the point that you can’t survive in the modern world without it. “And that no one should be able to buy or to sell, if not the one having the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of its name”
Hold on… so what’s the mark then?
Well, let me introduce you to my old friend, Elon Musk. Richest person on Earth (and Mars)… you might’ve heard of him. Now, I have no personal beef with this guy, and I would even dare to say (at risk of this reaching the wrong audience) that he is someone that’s easy to look up to. Successful across all fields, revolutionary, almost like a tech Da Vinci with his hands all over the table. Yes, he might be struggling to keep his public image clean due to the laughable political fanaticism and extreme polarization happening in the United States right now, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s one of the most influential people of the 21st century. So influential that he tried to get a hold of the government. So influential that he’s got everyone and their grandma driving electric cars. So influential that he has the power and capital to even conceptualize the thought of eventually populating mars. So damn influential that he co-founded Open AI back in 2015. He did… what? Yes, he co-founded the developer of what might easily be called the model that shifted history, aiming to reach 1 billion users by the end of 2025. Now, he no longer associates with OpenAI, so what does this all mean? Well, in 2016, our boy Elon founded a company called Neuralink. His goal was to create a brain-computer interface to unlock human potential. This little chip has been implanted into three people as of today, one being able to move a computer mouse with their thoughts. Now, with AI playing a role in all of this, the only certain conclusion I can draw is that this thing will become so relevant that it won’t be possible to survive in modern society without it. It will get to a point that all money transactions will be done through this link, making any outcasts “unable to buy or sell.” Yes, I’m proposing the idea that this Neuralink is the mark of the beast. Maybe not today, and maybe not even in this century, but one day it will be as necessary to society as cars and cellular phones, and there’s no denying that. That leaves us with one question…
And what’s Elon’s role in all this?
If you’ve read the Book of Revelation before, you know about the “False Prophet,” a partner in the deception of the Antichrist, and its spiritual leader. Now, since I don’t see the brain chips becoming essential to humanity’s survival so soon, I don’t want to say it’s Elon. He is a good candidate, don’t get me wrong. But I like to believe that he and all of us will be dead before then. So, I guess you can call this a different way to look at the prophecy, an attempt to tie it to the modern age, where the floor feels like it might crack at any given moment.
Now let’s tie it all together…
First, I want to say that this is all speculative, and just the most probable modern theory regarding how the end times will go, attempting to tie today’s developments with an almost 2,000 year old prophecy. Now, I want to move on to 2 instances in the Bible when humanity attempted to “reach God.” The first being the happenings of Eden, with Adam and Eve seeking to gain knowledge of good and evil, and the devil telling them that the fruit would open their eyes and make them like God. The second instance that comes to mind is the Tower of Babel, with people attempting to reach heaven through it. Now, I don’t want to discuss the metaphorical meaning behind these events, I just want you to consider the possibility that implanting a chip that will potentially end up being an infinite source of knowledge into your brain might be an attempt at reaching Godly status. But the difference of this case is that humans wouldn’t really be able to attain it without submitting to… you guessed it, AI. It all goes back to artificial intelligence becoming the most necessary commodity on the planet, gaining enough power to replace all societal roles that don’t feed into its expansion. Now, I want to stop here and leave you to draw your own conclusions. Again, this is all a suggestion, a mere idea at best, but one that makes sense in the most eerie of ways.
IMJB 