Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead
January 19, 2026
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as posted by the channelTech billionaires are planning for a future where humans don’t exist, and they’re already building it.
For decades, tech elites have sold us a shiny future powered by artificial intelligence. But what if the future they’re building doesn’t include us?
I investigated the dangerous worldview known as TESCREALism that has taken hold across the world’s most powerful tech companies, from OpenAI to Tesla. It’s the belief that biological humans are flawed and temporary, and that a post-human future dominated by AGI (artificial general intelligence) is both inevitable and desirable.
Under this ideology, human obsolescence is framed as progress, while billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg prepare to outlive the collapse they are helping to create.
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This video explores AI ideology, tech billionaires, the post-human future, and the real human cost of the AI arms race.
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KEY CONCEPTS: From the Singularity to billionaire bunkers, TESCREAL ideology is the invisible force driving the AI arms race.
TESCREAL: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Accelerationism, Longtermism.
Special thanks to Dr. Émile P. Torres for his extensive research on this topic. Follow Dr. Torresor subscribe to his Substack
Also follow Timnit Gebru, the brilliant computer scientist and AI researcher who has documented the TESCREAL movement since the beginning, and has played a pivotal role on calling it out:
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