AI as Antichrist
An evening with Joe Allen, author of Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity, on the intersection of religion, technology, and the fate of humanity.
An Ancient Warning.
A New Machine.
The Antichrist has loomed in the Western imagination for two thousand years. It’s the archetype of total control, a sacralized inversion of everything that is holy.
After two millennia of End Times nightmares, we’ve seen every possible version: the emperor as Antichrist, the foreign priest, and the heretic pope. Half a dozen US presidents have been candidates for the Antichrist.
In the technetronic age, AI has emerged as a new face of global evil: the villainous spirit of digital slavery. It’s terrifying, sure, but is it worth selling the family farm over?
Joe Allen will trace the history of this dark figure from the first Beast of Revelation to the shadow of a silicon god.
Joe Allen
Joe Allen is the author of Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity, one of the first comprehensive critical studies of the transhumanist movement and its designs on the human future. His reporting and commentary on artificial intelligence have made him one of the nation’s most recognized chroniclers of the collision between Silicon Valley and the soul.
Allen holds a master’s degree from Boston University, where he studied cognitive science and human evolution as they pertain to religion, giving him a rare footing in both the science of the machine and the theology it imitates. His writing has appeared in Chronicles, The Federalist, Human Events, The National Pulse, Parabola, and Salvo, among other publications.
Before turning to letters, he spent years as an arena rigger, touring the world with rock, country, rap, classical, and cage-fighting productions. He brings that working man’s eye to the loftiest subject there is: what becomes of humanity when its own creations demand its worship.
Our Evening Schedule
2026
Private Venue
Cocktail attire
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