America has given the world a new elite—a handful of people who made fortunes on algorithms and now genuinely believe they are entitled to redesign the future of the entire planet. They don’t wear suits, they don’t apologize for their statements, and they recognize no boundaries—neither in science, nor in politics nor in ethics. Their ideology is simple: progress must move as fast as possible, and anything that slows it down (laws, regulators, public opinion) is sabotage.
From Startups to Messianism
Not long ago, the CEO of a public company could only talk about quarterly earnings. Today, Elon Musk explains how to properly have children and why humanity is obliged to merge with machines. Marc Andreessen writes manifestos about why “we should build everything, right now.” Peter Thiel funds politicians who promise to remove any barriers in the path of technology. Sam Altman spends one year terrifying the world with extinction-level AI risk, then releases an even more powerful model the next—because “if we don’t do it, China will.”
Their shared religion is called accelerationism, sometimes prefixed with e/acc (effective accelerationism). The core tenet: any attempt to slow the development of artificial superintelligence is a crime against the future of the species. Safety? Secondary. Ethics? Slows progress. Regulation? A direct threat to human survival.
China as the Perfect Enemy
The most convenient argument is geopolitics. “If we don’t build superintelligence first, Beijing will.” That single sentence ends all discussion. Want to restrict training on trillions of parameters? You’re helping the Chinese Communist Party. Suggest mandatory labeling of deepfakes? You’re delaying the West in the race. Call for independent safety audits? Sorry, that’s classified—there’s a war on.
The result is a paradox: the same people who shout loudest about existential risks are simultaneously doing everything possible to maximize those risks.
Eugenics Without the Swastika
At the same time, ideas that were considered fringe just ten years ago are being quietly normalized. Having fewer children is bad because “average IQ is falling.” Having more children is good—but preferably “high-quality” ones (i.e., from rich, educated parents). Colonizing Mars is declared a moral imperative, while earthly problems are trivialities that a future superintelligence will solve.
This is no longer just business strategy. It is a full-fledged ideology of superiority in which the main heroes are the billionaires themselves and their genetic offspring, while everyone else is mere statistics to be optimized.
Democracy as a Bug
The most alarming part is their attitude toward democratic institutions. Regulators are stupid, voters are short-sighted, journalists get in the way. Better to decide everything in closed chats and private dinners attended by ten or fifteen people who together control half the world’s technology market cap in technology.
They no longer hide their contempt for “slow” processes. One of the most popular tweets of 2024–2025: “Democracy is a 20th-century bug we can finally fix.”
The Bottom Line
We have handed the richest and most ambitious people in history tools capable of altering the biology of the species and the architecture of intelligence, while leaving almost no levers of control. They are not comic-book villains. They sincerely believe they are saving humanity. The problem is that their salvation plan includes creating entities millions of times smarter than us without serious alignment mechanisms, normalizing eugenic ideas under the guise of “optimization,” and dismantling any institution capable of saying “stop.”
History shows that when a small group gains too much power and simultaneously convinces itself it is acting for a higher purpose, it rarely ends well.
The question is not whether we believe in the technological singularity. The question is whether we are willing to let a few dozen billionaires decide—alone and unchecked—on which side of that singularity the rest of us will find ourselves.
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