{"id":239761,"date":"2026-07-02T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/peter-thiel-the-pope-is-working-for-the-chinese-communists-by-criticizing-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:20:13","slug":"peter-thiel-the-pope-is-working-for-the-chinese-communists-by-criticizing-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/peter-thiel-the-pope-is-working-for-the-chinese-communists-by-criticizing-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel: The pope is \u2018working for the Chinese Communists\u2019 by criticizing AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/02\/us\/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec\">Peter Thiel: The pope is \u2018working for the Chinese Communists\u2019 by criticizing AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/02\/us\/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/02\/us\/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-02 16:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Thiel accused Pope Leo XIV of inadvertently serving as a \u201cChinese communist agent\u201d by calling for AI regulation.<\/li>\n<li>Thiel argued that stronger international regulation of artificial intelligence could slow down the race between the US and China.<\/li>\n<li>He dismissed concerns regarding the influence of the tech industry, emphasizing a multi-power center model in the US as more beneficial than centralized power.<\/li>\n<li>Thiel warned that the Democratic Party is undergoing a \u201cdemocratic-socialist takeover\u201d, which he sees as a threat to the Western democracy system.<\/li>\n<li>He interpreted the American Revolution as a revolt against an all-powerful British parliamentary system, contrasting it with the rule-bound bureaucracy of today\u2019s European Union.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Thiel: The pope is \u2018working for the Chinese Communists\u2019 by criticizing AI https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/02\/us\/peter-thiel-aspen-pope-china-ai-cec Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/55367803131-452026da6a-o.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-239761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239763,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239761\/revisions\/239763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}