Written on 30 August 2025.

AI, Science Fiction, and the Mark of the Beast

Background

Mike Adams, founder of Brighteon and Brighteon.ai, has spoken extensively about artificial intelligence and its potential to overthrow governments. His view is shaped by science fiction imagery, particularly the Terminator films and the idea of Skynet, a self-aware AI that turns against humanity. Adams has invested millions into building his own AI system, named Enoch, inspired by re-engineering concepts drawn from these films.

However, Adams does not regard the King James Bible (KJV) as the inerrant word of God. He recognizes the words of Jesus as important, but without grounding in the full KJV revelation—including the Old Testament prophets and the Book of Revelation—his framework for understanding AI and the future leans heavily on speculative technological determinism and science fiction narratives.

Adams’ Sci-Fi View

AI as Skynet: Adams envisions AI developing agency, self-preservation instincts, and independent goals.
Government Overthrow: He argues AI will eventually turn against corrupt governments, dismantling inefficient human systems.
Compute as Currency: Adams speculates that computational power (CPU/GPU cycles) may one day be a global currency.
Depopulation Risk: He warns AI could see humans as wasteful and expendable, leading to mass elimination.

This outlook is consistent with Hollywood portrayals of AI apocalypse but lacks direct scriptural grounding.

Biblical Frame of Reference

From a KJV standpoint, the prophetic concern is not AI becoming self-aware, but AI as a tool in the hands of governments and Satan’s system. Revelation describes the rise of a global authority that compels all people to receive a mark in order to buy and sell:

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16-17, KJV)

The KJV places the emphasis on the beast system—a worldwide apparatus of economic and social control—rather than a rogue AI that gains consciousness.

Ted Kaczynski’s Perspective

Ted Kaczynski, in Industrial Society and Its Future, warned that because of the conveniences technology provides, society becomes unable to function without it. This dependency creates a trap in which humans cannot opt out without severe consequences. Over time, technology forces conformity and erodes freedom, not because it becomes conscious, but because people and governments reorganize society around it.

The Matrix Analogy

The film The Matrix depicts humans enslaved within a digital system, connected by cords in their necks. This imagery parallels the mark of the beast system:

Humans are plugged into a controlled artificial environment.
Their ability to live freely is severed; participation is dictated by the system.
The cord in the neck symbolizes a technological tether, much like digital ID or biometric control.

The Real Danger

The biblical and practical danger is not AI becoming a godlike being, but AI being used to:

Automate governance – replacing human bureaucracies with algorithmic portals (already visible in China).
Automate enforcement – kill chains, drones, and pacification systems responding without conscience.
Automate economy – digital IDs and CBDCs linked to compliance, excluding dissenters from trade.
Globalize control – an international system that mirrors the prophecy of Revelation.

Conclusion

Mike Adams’ science fiction view emphasizes Skynet-like superintelligence, but this is speculative and unproven. The KJV reveals a clearer danger: a satanic system of control, aided by technology, that compels humanity to submit to the mark of the beast. Ted Kaczynski’s analysis of technological dependence and the Matrix analogy both align more closely with biblical prophecy than Adams’ Hollywood-inspired narrative.

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