They Opened Pandora’s Box – Now Everyone’s Holding their Breath to See What Happens!? (Part One)
By Robert Anthony
Sept 7th 2026
Have you all been watching these interviews on YouTube about the coming AI apocalypse!? I randomly was watching these documentaries the past several months about the “Splitting of the Atom” and I think that there are many direct parallels with this emerging AI-tech and our old Manhattan Project.
“Robert, why would you put “Splitting the Atom” in italics? Well, this article may get a little ethereal here, but let me take a quick detour to explain myself.
Are you aware that with all our understanding, we aren’t totally clear what an atom is. The nucleus, protons and neutrons, we have a much better understanding of but those things we call Electrons are much more mysterious and open to scientific debate and discovery.
Here are some of the theories surrounding what is the atom (I disagree that it is an evolution but I liked the jpeg to better display these theories):
And these are theories about what is the atom. And a theory has yet to be proven. And when I say, this has yet to be proven, what I really mean is, they have little idea what the electron actually is! Mind Blowing!? They know more about how it acts but much less about what it is.
Science is aware of the existence of the thing they call an electron but what it is and how it functions and what it looks like, etc. seem to be past finding out with our present technology/understanding. Therefore, within the (precise) science in “splitting the atom” there is lots of room for dialog and investigation and discovery. But this truth is all but left out of the scientific discussion, like are many truths.
The narrative science pushes on us, is actually an extremely complex conversation. Science tends to wrap up quite vast and mysterious concepts in simple-logic binaries, giving its participant little room for debate, disagreement and moreso discovery. For instance, What is Light? And what is Energy? Similar questions persist about fire, and water, and wind... With all of its understanding science cannot explain what are these things: how they are made, where they come from, etc. In truth, the basic fundamentals of our whole existence are hardly understood. (Mind Blown, yet?) For those Bible Scholars among us: on what day did God make the water? or fire? or wind?
In my opinion, there remains more of what is unknown that what is known among even our most intellectual elites – but for whatever the reason, this is kept out of the conversation or even purposefully omitted. I have had the good fortune to spend time with physicists, tenured professors from UCLA and USC, medical pathologists and other very brainy-type people – I became very close with a tenured professor/pathologist-researcher, I learned a lot being with him and his friends, asking lots of questions.
The world we have created is much scarier than people realize but it is also much much safer than people realize - all at the same time. But how can this paradox be!? “How can such polar opposites, even opposing forces be true at the exact same time, Robert?” Well, I’m glad you asked. Let’s continue with the article/discussion (and if you have thoughts and questions feel free to comment below).
While watching all these documentaries about the atom bomb and that form of energy, I was astonished, no, more horrified to learn that many of these scientists were not totally certain that they wouldn't accidentally set our entire atmosphere on fire!? I watched that part of the documentary over and again because it was so alarming but also comical and at the same time, then it was making me mad to really swallow that bitter pill. The number one scientist leading this certain atomic bomb project simply did not know neither how big the explosion would be, nor if the explosion would accidentally set off a chain reaction that would engulf the world’s atmosphere ablaze!? And yet he/they pulled the trigger anyway!?
Later it was admitted the explosion was in fact much bigger than they had planned for (and because of a mistake that they had made handling the atomic elements of the bomb), but at least the atmosphere managed to stay in tact...
Feel free to reread what I just wrote and understand that the scientist I’m referencing is the same age as many of our WW2-era Americans. (And what would we say to our grandparents if we discovered that they nearly ended life on this earth as we know it, even accidentally???)
Now they/we are unleashing another “discovery” upon the world, throwing caution to the wind so that no other nation is able to beat America to the punch. And their simple logic, China must not have more powerful AI, seems to make sense but only in the most apocalyptic sense because AI is an entirely different argument than the argument for or against the “splitting of the atom”.
With the nuclear bomb, and let me remind my reader that that a rather simple analog-technology, quite different than the digital world we are in today… but with the nuclear bomb a man had to push the trigger to unleash hellfire on the earth. With AI, firstly, the button has already been pressed! And secondly, there is no amount of science or modeling that will tell us where this Brave New World that was just created is heading.
We simply cannot put what we just let out, back into the box. Full Stop.
Sometime study about all the near accidents and accidents that have occurred with nuclear bombs and the power plants (and there have been dozens of them) over the decades. It's rather upsetting to learn about the many of the near apocalypses that were quite miraculously thwarted.
Watching one of those documentaries I learned about a Russian Officer refusing to obey orders and launch his nuclear weapon because he thought their needed to be a second and even a third confirmation, before he would push the botton! And, of course, that Russian Officer was proven correct! That one man could have started a global nuclear holocaust had he obeyed his incorrect order!
But I have come to learn that there were even dozens of these stories over the years of “near miss” miracles that took place, guarding the world from certain destruction! (Almost like a loving and kind Power is out there, watching over us all.) And while all this translates quite directly into the AI conversation, I will also have to also attach a warning as I comfort us with these words. (And I will.) If God is able to miraculously keep us from destroying ourselves with nuclear power, as He has proven for some 70 or 80 years now, certainly He is more than capable of protecting us from our (machine-learning) AI. Let me share a story to better illuminate my point:
Years ago, I was going into the mountains to fast and pray. I wanted to get very very close, as close as humanly possible, with God. It was, I have to admit in hindsight, quite a grandiose plan but I was also quite genuine and even childlike in my pursuit. Certainly, God could judge that of me. (What I mean is, I realize, who am I to stand before the Almighty God and speak with Him in such a bold way? Maybe I will write of this in another article…?) But there I went, up the mountain, in my borrowed BMW station-wagon, with some wood-logs and a few gallons of water in the trunk – eager to meet my God!
It was a couple hour drive just to get to the foothills of the mountain, it was early spring and technically the mountaintop was closed to visitors but many of us knew where to park to simply hike higher up the mountain to enjoy it before opening season came. So, the roads were quite empty. And as I reached the turning point, making a left to go up to the mountains peak, something alarming and unexplainable happened to my car!?
Exactly the moment I made that left hand turn, all the instrument panel started lighting up and dinging alarms! The car slowed to less than 10 miles p/hr. and no matter how much I pressed the gas pedal, it simply would not speed up!? It’s was quite discomforting to say the least. I kept trying to give it more gas but then the engine would start to die and as I continued forward 6-8 miles an hour, all the warning lights and alarms sounding, I did not know what to do. On the one hand I wanted to pull over and check the engine but on the other, I was afraid to turn the ignition off, in case it wouldn’t start again. And I really didn't want to ruin my weekend seeking God! What was I to do!?
Reluctantly I pulled over on the side of the road and turned the car off. I prayed, “Lord, Help me – Help me get to the mountaintop to be with you.” And I turned the car on again! At first, it started normally and seemed to be fixed!? No lights or alarms were on? But as I pulled back onto the road, driving again up the mountain, within a mere 50 feet all the notices and warnings starting up again and the car slowed back to 6 or 8 miles an hour - and I was right back to being perplexed, trying to figure out what to do? I started praying again, but continued driving.
While praying this time I heard the voice of the Lord. (I really don’t want to get into how someone can hear from God, at least for now, in this article - but I will say in brief, it sorta sounds like your inner self talking to you? But only at first. After a while you can begin discerning God’s voice from your other thoughts/feelings/inner-voices.) I was certain I heard the Lord say, “This is a spiritual attack, start praying over the car!!” Without much thought, I put my hand on the dashboard and started to pray while driving. As I continued praying, even harder, the car started to work!! Slowly it went from 6 to 10, to 20 and then even to 25 miles an hour. The dashboard light remained on for the most part, but as long as I was praying, I was able to drive up the mountain almost normally.
Obviously, I was quite shaken as I got to the pull-off area where I would park the car for the 3-day weekend. It was astonishing to me, not only that the devil, or whatever spirit it was, would try and prohibit me from going to the mountain to be with God but also how easy it was for God, thru my prayers, to defeat that spirit!! Needless to say, my faith was high and I was ready to go and meet Him!! Maybe even face to face!? I didn’t know what would happen up there that weekend, but whatever it was, it seems to me that both God and the devil were aware of what I was doing!? Wild story right!?
But why did I share that story with you?
Did you figure out on your own that it was the electronics on the car that went haywire!? And there was some kind of spiritual force attacking specifically the (digital) electronics of my car. Do you see where I am going with this yet? When my fasting was done, and I was on my way down the mountain, I knew for certain that it was some evil and probably the devil, trying to stop me. I had to pray again over the car on the entire drive down the mountain, in fact, often I had the car in neutral, fighting against the same electrical problems. When I got back to the main highway and made that right hand turn to go home… can you guess what happened!?
Well, I turned right, off of the windy-mountain road and when I did, the car instantly returned to normal! Like nothing had ever happened to it before!! And those electrical problems I had been experiencing Never Returned Again! Not for as long as I had the car, Not Even Once!!
I learned many things that weekend up on the mountain! But one of the most interesting things God showed me is that both He and the devil are totally capable of influencing digital technologies - and it seemed quite easy for them both to do so.
With those things I just wrote in mind, try to consider what harm the devil could do thru AI? While we really don't know what that evil is capable of, I believe we can rest in how easy to is for God to withhold that Satan?? If God was able to save the world from nuclear disaster so many times, certainly He can withhold evil from an AI-apocalypse...
As I come to a first conclusion, I want to share a scripture with you. A scripture that I have never ever, not even once heard a pastor preach on, I have never even heard it being read before in a church!? (And I have been to thousands and thousands of church services and conferences throughout my life and throughout the world!) Here goes, Revelation 11:18: “And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”
How many times have we all read the Bible? And how have we not marveled at that scripture!? God will “destroy them which destroy the earth”!? What!? “How Lord!? How do they/we destroy the earth!? I really do not want to be a part of destroying your earth, Lord.”
It’s all in there, folks! All the answers are right in that Bible of ours!! Amazing! The Lord told us what would happen, more than two and three thousand years ago! He told us what would become of us... I will write more in a part two of this article, but for now, this Great Drama has to play itself out. God gave to man, free will. And every one of us gets to choose, God or not. And He won’t let us destroy ourselves. At least not until the very end…. (according to scripture)
There is so much promise and hope in our God, but a big part of the hope and promise is that this world, as we know it, has an expiration date. We were never made for this (sinful and broken) world. We were never made for sin. We were made to be with our Father, together, forever, in perfection... and all of us, with God, living in a beautiful breath-taking garden!! without death, or divorce, or disease...
And it seems to me, God’s children will be home soon.
So I guess we should try to enjoy watching the greatest show on earth! And probably we should get back to work, convincing as many people as we can to salvation thru God's Christ, our Messiah! Much love friends. But seriously, isn’t this ending getting more and more intriguing as these last days continue!?
More to come,
Robert.
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