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JD Vance did his 40 days and nights of fasting, but he\u2019s still lost in the desert. Currently on the outs with Donald Trump for making the mistake of thinking he was serious about that whole \u201cno new wars\u201d thing, the Vice President has two people whispering into his ear offering guidance: the Pope, the most important earth-bound figure in his deeply held faith, and Peter Thiel, the billionaire who made him relevant.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately for Vance, the two are diametrically opposed forces. In one corner is Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope with a decidedly pro-human agenda in the era of artificial intelligence; a pope who should have some real appeal to a politician actively marketing a book about his adult conversion to Catholicism. In the other corner is Thiel, a billionaire weirdo who has been giving lectures on the Antichrist and reportedly accused the pope of being in league with the figure empowered by Satan to bring about the downfall of the global order\u2014an oligarch who seems more invested in AI than in humanity\u2019s survival<\/p>\n

Seems like it should be a pretty easy choice, but one guy promises a kingdom in the afterlife, and the other promises it in this life, and Vance seems torn as to which he values more.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s clear that he\u2019s feeling the pull from both sides.<\/p>\n

The Pope recently issued his encyclical on artificial intelligence, which\u00a0centered humanity and warned of the \u201crisk of being misled by deceitful goals\u201d that may arise from \u201cthe growing dominance of a technocratic paradigm\u201d (and prodded the tech bros with a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien and a read on his works that directly conflicts with the likes of Thiel and Elon Musk\u2019s interpretation of the author\u2019s work).<\/p>\n

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Vance, speaking to NBC News, praised the papal declaration. \u201cWhat I read of it sounds very profound, and the sort of thing that you would expect and hope from a leader of the church,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cThe thing about morality is that the principles never change, but the way you apply those principles does, because the world changes, right?\u201d He gave Pope Leo XIV credit for recognizing the world is changing and working to \u201crethink the entire Catholic social teaching in light of the new world that we live in.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is probably not going to sit particularly well with Thiel, who would have a hard time not feeling targeted by the Pope\u2019s encyclical\u2014and not just because he has a persecution complex. A recent report from Letters From Leo, a publication tracking the Pope, revealed that Thiel told Vance to ignore the moral advice of the Pope, including on the ethics of AI.<\/p>\n

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Thiel doesn\u2019t necessarily need Vance if he has Trump in his corner, and it\u2019s clear that Trump is far more malleable on AI issues\u2014he just recently axed an executive order to regulate AI models at the behest of the tech industry. But it seemed Vance was supposed to be the guy in waiting who would take over after Trump and solidify all of Thiel\u2019s preferred policies. Now the two seem to be diverging.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason to assume Vance is saved in this regard\u2014the pull of power is strong, and Thiel has several billion ways of putting his finger on the scale. But maybe, just maybe, Vance is starting to experience a real break from Trump world. AI \u201craises such profound questions for how we interact with one another, what kind of skills we need in the workforce, the kind of wars that we\u2019ll fight and how we\u2019ll fight our wars,\u201d the Vice President told NBC. \u201cI think we really need moral leadership to think through those questions, and that\u2019s exactly what the church is the best leader to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

It already seems like his 2028 Presidential bid is dead on arrival, and there\u2019s not really a whole lot of places for him to go post-vice presidency if not up. So maybe he\u2019s considering just abandoning ship and giving genuinely held beliefs a try.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, Vance has more devils than shoulders, and there\u2019s a powerful force waiting in the wings. He claims that he deleted Elon Musk\u2019s X from his phone for Lent and the change has made him feel \u201chealthier.\u201d His staff has been posting on his behalf, but he plans to reinstall the app at some point in the future. \u201cOne of the good things about social media is that it actually exposes you to unfiltered raw opinions, and that\u2019s one of the things that I need to hear as a political leader,\u201d he said. Jumping back into the cesspool of X could be enough to make even the most faithful turn away from the light of the Lord.<\/p>\n

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