> The new ideology would be anti-China, a country Mr Thiel portrays as using artificial intelligence (ai) to centralise control over the economy. So what? So d

> The new ideology would be anti-China, a country Mr Thiel portrays as using artificial intelligence (ai) to centralise control over the economy. So what? So does he. To anyone who is neither Peter Thiel nor the Chinese state, it doesn't much matter if too much power is concentrated in the hands of the Chinese state or the hands of Peter Thiel. The problem is the same. > As he once told a friend: “I’d rather be seen as evil than incompetent.” Not to worry, Mr Thiel, you're at least halfway there.