A new techno ideology is spreading from Silicon Valley into politics, media and everyday life.
It promises salvation through artificial intelligence, escape through space colonisation and efficiency through total automation.
Its prophets are not scientists or elected leaders.
They are billionaires.
Adam Becker recently published a book that dissects these visions. This article goes further.
This is my own assessment based on observation, research and the public behaviour of the people driving this agenda.
The danger is not that AI will take our jobs, but the real danger is that we are allowing a tiny group of extremely wealthy and creepy men to define what humanity should become.
Elon Musk is a central example.
Over the past years, his public statements on X have moved far beyond technology.
He has amplified accounts that spread racist narratives, engaged with content that flirts with fascist ideas and repeatedly attacked democratic institutions, independent media and the concept of pluralism.
He portrays democracy as weak, promotes authoritarian style leadership and frames empathy and diversity as threats to civilisation.
This is a worldview in which hierarchy, dominance and control are seen as natural and desirable.
The same worldview appears in his obsession with Mars colonisation. The message is clear. Earth and its societies are broken. The solution is not reform, cooperation or responsibility. The solution is escape and control in a new environment designed from scratch.
Peter Thiel has openly argued that he no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible.
He has invested in surveillance technologies, supported political movements that undermine democratic norms and promoted the idea that a small elite should guide society because the masses are incapable of making good decisions.
Sam Altman presents a calmer public image, but the structure he is building with OpenAI concentrates enormous informational power into a single organisation.
AI systems that write, summarise, decide and inform billions of people are controlled by a private entity guided by a small leadership group. This is a structural shift of cognitive authority away from society and into corporate hands.
The pattern is consistent. These men believe that complex human problems can be solved like engineering problems.
They reduce societies to systems that can be optimised. They treat democracy as inefficiency. They treat human diversity as noise.
They treat ethics as an obstacle to progress.
Their public communication makes this visible. Repeated attacks on democratic institutions. Repeated signals of sympathy for authoritarian approaches. Repeated framing of social justice, equality and regulation as enemies of innovation.
It is simply fascist ideology.
Artificial intelligence is the perfect vehicle for this ideology. When people rely on AI to write, think, filter information and make decisions, they slowly outsource parts of their autonomy.
Over time, critical thinking weakens. Dependence grows. And the systems mediating knowledge are owned by corporations run by individuals who openly question democratic values.
This is why the real threat of AI is not unemployment. It is the silent centralisation of influence over how humans access information, form opinions and make choices.
The Mars narrative fits perfectly into this mindset. Instead of fixing climate change, inequality and political instability on Earth, enormous resources are directed toward a fantasy of starting over on a hostile planet.
A sick escape fantasy for those who have lost faith in society and prefer control over cooperation.
If these billionaires achieved everything they publicly advocate, we would not see a technological utopia.
We would see a world with weakened democratic structures, extreme concentration of power, high surveillance, low accountability and a population increasingly dependent on systems it does not understand and cannot influence.
Technology is not the problem. The ideology behind it is.
🔺The belief that humanity is a system to be engineered.
🔺The belief that a small elite knows better than society.
🔺The belief that democracy is an obstacle.
🔺The belief that control is preferable to participation.
We are witnessing the political philosophy of a handful of billionaires being embedded into the infrastructure of the future.
That is why blind enthusiasm for AI tools, space colonisation and techno solutionism is dangerous.
Because of the worldview of the people who build and control them.
The future of humanity should not be designed in private boardrooms by men who openly question the value of democracy, flirt with racist narratives and admire authoritarian models of power.
This is not science fiction. It is happening in real time, in public, on social media, in interviews and in corporate strategy.
And most people are applauding it as innovation.
