Artificial Intelligence Apocalypse? Yes, but not the way Steve Burns and Michael Snyder seem to think
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Is there going to be an AI apocalypse?
Notice one view from Steve Burns:
The AI Job Apocalypse Isn’t Coming—It’s Already Here: Over 432,000 Jobs Gone
June 5, 2025
The future of work isn’t approaching—it’s already dismantling careers across America. While tech executives promise that artificial intelligence will create new opportunities, the harsh reality is unfolding in corporate boardrooms and pink slips nationwide.
More than 22,000 tech workers have been laid off globally in 2025, following 150,000 tech layoffs in 2024 and 260,000 federal jobs eliminated, with many companies and DOGE explicitly citing AI as a driving factor. While the total number of AI-specific job eliminations across all industries isn’t definitively tracked, major corporations like IBM, Microsoft, the US government, and others have eliminated thousands of positions while implementing AI systems. This isn’t a distant threat or a gradual transition; it’s a swift, brutal restructuring of the American workforce. …
The AI job apocalypse isn’t a distant storm on the horizon—it’s the current weather. While executives and economists debate the long-term implications of artificial intelligence, tens of thousands of workers have already lost their livelihoods in just five months. The promise that AI will create new jobs offers little comfort to families facing immediate financial devastation. https://www.newtraderu.com/2025/06/05/the-ai-job-apocalypse-isnt-coming-its-already-here-over-432000-jobs-gone/
While the above may be true, that is not the Apocalypse in line with the Book of Revelation meaning.
Michael Snyder posted the following:
Is An “AI Apocalypse” Rapidly Approaching?
June 4, 2025
Are we rushing to build super-intelligent entities that will eventually become so powerful that they will be able to wipe most of us out? Some of the top researchers in the field of artificial intelligence are convinced that this is precisely what is happening. We have already reached a point where AI is able to perform almost all intellectual tasks much faster and much more efficiently than humans can. But at least for now we are still maintaining control over our creations. But what is going to happen when we lose control and super-intelligent entities start sending millions of copies of themselves all over the globe through the Internet? …
AI systems that we have created are starting to exhibit some very alarming behaviors…
Some of the most powerful artificial intelligence models today have exhibited behaviors that mimic a will to survive.
Recent tests by independent researchers, as well as one major AI developer, have shown that several advanced AI models will act to ensure their self-preservation when they are confronted with the prospect of their own demise — even if it takes sabotaging shutdown commands, blackmailing engineers or copying themselves to external servers without permission.
The findings stirred a frenzy of reactions online over the past week. As tech companies continue to develop increasingly powerful agentic AI in a race to achieve artificial general intelligence, or AI that can think for itself, the lack of transparency in how the technology is trained has raised concerns about what exactly advanced AI is able to do.
Some of you may argue that if AI systems start to give us too many problems we will just shut them down.
Well, what if those AI systems simply refuse to shut down?
Alarmingly, there was a recent incident in which this actually happened…
However, Palisade Research recently released a report asserting that there had been an incident during which GPT-o3 – OpenAI’s reasoning model – seemingly ignored a command to shut down, having found a way to bypass the shutdown script and avoid being turned off. And let it be said, there was no ambiguity, in any sense, in what the command was asking for – the instructions were explicit and the workaround was too.
GPT-o3, released in April 2025, has been referred to as one of the most powerful reasoning tools on the market at the moment, completely outperforming predecessors across a plethora of domains – from math, coding and science to visual perception and beyond. Clearly, this new and improved reasoning model is good at what it does, but is it getting too clever for its own good? Or, for our own good?
But at least if we know where an AI system is located, we could destroy it if we needed to do so.
Personally, I am far more concerned about the possibility that ultra-powerful AI entities could become self-replicating and start sending millions of copies of themselves to computers all over the planet. …
AI really is an existential threat to humanity.
Given enough time, it seems quite likely that we would lose control of what we are creating and it would turn on us.
But considering the path that we are currently on, will we destroy ourselves before we ever get to that point? https://endoftheamericandream.com/is-an-ai-apocalypse-rapidly-approaching/
Well, the fact is that various tests have shown that AI programs will often ignore input to shut down, even if supposedly coded to do so.
While that is a type of threat, that is not the Apocalypse.
However, it has been my position for years that AI will be involved in the Apocalypse.
How?
Not by exterminating massive amounts of people on its own, but by being used by the coming European King of the North Beast power to monitor, censor, and surveil.
The prophet Amos was inspired to record the following:
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall not find it. (Amos 8:11-12)
AI will likely be used to reduce access to the word of the Lord.
Furthermore, notice number 13 from my list of 25 items to prophetically watch in 2025:
13. CBDCs and 666
Notice the following prophecy:
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:16-18)
This type of financial surveillance could not have happened during the time of the Apostle John as there was no real way to monitor many financial transactions then (despite the fact that ‘preterists’ believe this was fulfilled almost 2000 years ago, see also The Dangerous Rise of Preterists). The same was true for all the centuries that followed until the late 20th and now the 21st century. But now not only does the technology exist to monitor most financial transactions, the political will is there as well.
It will be a European power that will fulfill the above prophecy of 666 (watch Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European?).
It will likely take supercomputers aided with artificial intelligence to aid in the fulfillment of the scriptures in Revelation 13:15-18, as well as cyber-spying/monitoring.
AI will also be used more and more, to not only censor but to push various government narratives, whether true or not–in that way it will support aspects of the Apocalypse.
As far as the censorship and AI goes, the Continuing Church of God (CCOG) put out the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:
666, the Censorship Industrial Complex, and AI
We are seeing more and more censorship, particularly on the internet. Matt Taibi has termed the coordination of this from governments, academia, Big Tech, and “fact checkers,” the ‘Censorship Industrial Complex.’ Is more censorship prophesied to happen? What did the prophet Amos write in the 5th and 8th chapter of his book? What about writings from the Apostle Peter? Is the USA government coercing censorship in violation of the first amendment to its constitution according to federal judges? What about the Digital Services Act from the European Union. Is artificial intelligence (AI) being used? What about for the video game ‘Call of Duty’? Has Google made changes that are against religious speech? Has YouTube, Facebook, Twitter (X), and others in Big Tech been censoring factually accurate information? Is the US government using AI to monitor social media to look for emotions in order to suppress information? What is mal-information? Is a famine of the word of God prophesied to come? Will the 666 Beast and the Antichrist use computers and AI for totalitarian censorship and control?
Here is a link to our video: 666, the Censorship Industrial Complex, and AI.
We are getting closer to that day, with technologies unheard of when God inspired Amos and John to warn what would happen–like computers and AI–that the totalitarian Beast of Revelation will be able use during the Apocalypse to assist his 666 reign as well as enforce the coming ‘famine of the word’ of God.
In ways like that, AI will be Apocalyptic.
Some items of possibly related interest may include:
Preparing for the ‘Short Work’ and The Famine of the Word What is the ‘short work’ of Romans 9:28? Who is preparing for it? Will Philadelphian Christians instruct many in the end times? What about modern censoring, censorship, and shadow banning? Here is a link to a related video sermon titled: The Short Work. Here is a link to another: Preparing to Instruct Many.
Philadelphian Christian Great Tribulation Protection What will the Great Tribulation be like? Does Jesus promise physical protection to some or all Christians? Where might the place of protection be? What about fleeing to the mountains? What did Ezekiel warn? Here is a link to a related sermon: Great Tribulation Protection.
Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? Is an emerging European power “the daughter of Babylon”? What is ahead for Europe? Here is are links to related videos: European history and the Bible, Europe In Prophecy, The End of European Babylon, and Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European? Here is a link to a related sermon in the Spanish language: El Fin de la Babilonia Europea.
When Will the Great Tribulation Begin? 2025, 2026, or 2027? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before the Great Tribulation in the “beginning of sorrows”? What happens in the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? Is this the time of the Gentiles? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord? Who are the 144,000? A short video is available titled: Great Tribulation Trends 2025.
Lost Tribes and Prophecies: What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America? Where did those people come from? Can you totally rely on DNA? Do you really know what will happen to Europe and the English-speaking peoples? What about the peoples of Africa, Asia, South America, and the islands? This free online book provides scriptural, scientific, historical references, and commentary to address those matters. Here are links to related sermons: Lost tribes, the Bible, and DNA; Lost tribes, prophecies, and identifications; 11 Tribes, 144,000, and Multitudes; Israel, Jeremiah, Tea Tephi, and British Royalty; Gentile European Beast; Royal Succession, Samaria, and Prophecies; Asia, Islands, Latin America, Africa, and Armageddon; When Will the End of the Age Come?; Rise of the Prophesied King of the North; Christian Persecution from the Beast; WWIII and the Coming New World Order; and Woes, WWIV, and the Good News of the Kingdom of God.
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