Stargate: Trump directs US gov. to support transhumanist goal of creating 'artificial superintelligence'

Stargate: Trump directs US gov. to support transhumanist goal of creating 'artificial superintelligence'

On his first full day as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump publicly announced that he is directing the U.S. government to support a planned $500 billion infrastructure project to enable the creation of superintelligence.

Known as “The Stargate Project,” the new company has already started building 10 data centers in Texas, and plans to soon expand the construction of data centers and energy infrastructure across the U.S.

While “The Stargate Project” will be privately funded, Trump said that he will use his powers as president to ensure its rapid realization, in order to stay ahead of China and other competitors in AI development.

“I will help a lot through emergency declarations, because we have an emergency, we have to get this stuff built,” Trump said.

Trump announced the project in a press conference at the White House, alongside three tech billionaires: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.

While Ellison emphasized the medical advancements that could be achieved through the project (such as the creation of personalized mRNA cancer “vaccines”), Son and Altman both indicated that the project is ultimately aimed toward creating superintelligence.

“I think AGI [artificial general intelligence] is coming very, very soon,” Masayoshi Son said, though noting that such human-level intelligence is “not the goal” of the project.

The goal, according to Son, is superintelligence.

“After that,” Son continued, “artificial superintelligence will come, to solve the issues that mankind would never ever have thought that we could solve.”

“This is the beginning of our golden age,” he concluded.

Altman echoed Son’s words.

“I think this will be the most important project of this era,” Altman stated. “As Masa said, for AGI to get built here, to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, to create a new industry centered here…we wouldn’t be able to this without you, Mr. President, and I’m thrilled that we get to.”

Both Son and Altman have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of creating artificial superintelligence (ASI), which they believe is the destination toward which the evolutionary process is heading, and will enable humanity to transcend its biological limitations.

Son said in a speech last year that, after experiencing a personal “crisis of confidence,” he had come to believe that the mission of his company should be to accelerate the evolution of mankind through superintelligence.

“I realized our ultimate mission: the evolution of humanity,” he said. “What greater cause could there be? This mission will be accomplished through the realization of artificial super intelligence (ASI) – AI that is ten thousand times more intelligent than human wisdom.”

“The realization of ASI, which will far surpass human wisdom, will mark a turning point in human history,” he declared. “All conventional wisdom will be overturned.”

Yet Son has gone further than simply saying that ASI’s realization was the mission he had chosen for his company – he has said it was the purpose for which he was born.

“For what purpose was Masa Son born?” he asked. “It may sound strange, but I think I was born to realize ASI. I am super serious about it.”

This is not the first time that Son has made comments casting himself in messianic terms.

After SoftBank suffered an annual loss of $13 billion several years ago, Son reportedly compared himself to the Son of God in a call with his investors.

“As analysts pressed him on [the company’s] poor performance so far during an investor call on Monday, Mr Son noted that Jesus was also misunderstood and criticised, according to three people who were on the call,” the Financial Times reported.

Altman has likewise spoken of his ambition in religious terms.

“The most successful founders do not set out to create companies,” he wrote in 2013, two years before he co-founded OpenAI. “They are on a mission to create something closer to a religion, and at some point it turns out that forming a company is the easiest way to do so.”

While Altman says he doesn’t “identify as a transhumanist,” his company leads the AI world in its efforts to hasten the coming of the so-called “Singularity” – the transhumanist eschaton in which mankind merges with superintelligence.

While there is debate regarding how long of a process this will be, Altman has openly advocated for such a merge.

Altman and Son likewise share the widely held view amongst AI experts that superintelligence could arrive within a decade or so.

Altman has said that, “it is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days.”

Son has predicted we will have AGI by 2030, and ASI by 2035.

Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman but has since started a rival AI company, has made similar predictions.

“I think it will be able to do anything that any human can do, possibly within the next year or two,” Musk said. “And then, how much longer than that does it take to do what all humans can do combined? I think not long, probably only, I don’t know, three years from that point? 2029-ish, ‘28, something like that.”

Musk’s comments were made in October, as part of a conference hosted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in an interview with transhumanist Peter Diamandis.

Diamandis, who co-founded the Singularity University, has said that “this kind of technology will allow us to be god-like in our abilities – to be omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. We’re going from individuals to a collected [sic] intelligence, a meta-intelligence.”

Many transhumanist thinkers even predict that the advance of artificial intelligence will enable human immortality.

President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has said he believes there is “a good probability that my generation is – hopefully, with the advances in science – either the first generation to live forever or the last generation that’s gonna die.”

President Trump has not said what he believes about superintelligence, or if he hopes for a future man-machine merger.

And he would not be wrong to back certain uses of narrow AI, which, like most tools, can be used for good.

Furthermore, he should be commended for rapidly working hard to fulfill his campaign promises, which so many Americans rightly hoped for—such as upholding the distinctions between men and women, ending DEI throughout the government, leaving the World Health Organization, securing the border, and declassifying the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination files.

Yet Trump has now put the weight of the American government behind a project which seeks to create a digital god.

He in now actively enabling the fulfillment of an emerging techno-religion’s greatest prophecy: the immanent arrival of digital superintelligence, through which men will become like God.