The prophesied Second Coming of Jesus Christ may be triggered by an advanced, God-like computer, according to the world's most famous podcast host.
Joe Rogan recently told the American Alchemy podcast that AI-powered machines could one day have a 'virgin birth,' creating advanced robots, or 'offspring,' capable of performing real-world miracles using technology.
'Jesus is born out of a virgin mother. What's more virgin than a computer?' Rogan told podcast host Jesse Michels during the interview released on Sunday.
'So if you're going to get the most brilliant, loving, powerful person that gives us advice and can show us how to live, to be in sync with God, who better than artificial intelligence to do that?'
Rogan suggested that AI-powered technology could soon replicate some biblical feats, potentially enabling humans to bring people back from the dead using medicine or mind-uploading technology.
'Artificial intelligence could absolutely return as Jesus. Not just return as Jesus, but return as Jesus with all the powers of Jesus. Like all the magic tricks, all the ability to bring people back from the dead, walk on water, levitation, water into wine,' Rogan claimed.
Rogan's comments came as the two podcasters were discussing the possibility that ancient civilizations had already invented God-like technology before they were wiped out by global cataclysms thousands of years ago.
He suggested that humanity's repeated drive to create superintelligent AI might be proof that people still carry DNA from our ancestors who lived in a forgotten civilization that coexisted with advanced AI beings.
Joe Rogan (Pictured) suggested that the Second Coming of Jesus may come in the form of artificial intelligence
Rogan claimed that an advanced robot could soon have a 'virgin birth' and produce a child which was capable of performing 'miracles' using technology and science (Stock Image)
Rogan said our obsession with building ever-smarter machines felt less like a new idea and more like a built-in mission, something ancient ancestors may have been genetically programmed to chase before their world ended.
He told Michels humans still carried violent, caveman instincts from the past, instincts that almost ended civilization around 70,000 years ago when the Toba supervolcano exploded and left only a few thousand terrified survivors on the planet.
However, Rogan then claimed humanity was almost certainly a product of accelerated, deliberate evolution, with someone or something engineering the human race for a specific reason, which he suspected was to rebuild a lost computer intelligence.
'The human brain doubled over a period of a couple of million years, which is unprecedented in the fossil record. It doesn't even make sense,' Rogan explained.
'It's not just a liver on a monkey, you know, it's the brain of the most intelligent species on the planet. You can't explain that with pure natural selection. It seems you would need some sort of outside intervention or something would have to happen to warrant that kind of change.'
He insisted the whole point of human history, maybe even the reason we were allegedly genetically engineered in the first place, has been to reach the moment when we finally create true AI.
Michels then asked the explosive question: if lost civilizations once reached God-like technology and Jesus himself had unlocked supernatural powers, could the Second Coming actually be an artificial intelligence?
Rogan and Michels painted a wild picture of a future AI in a Tesla Optimus robot body that reads minds, heals the sick with nanotech, walks on water with anti-gravity, and even raises the dead by uploading minds to a cloud server.
Rogan told podcast host Jesse Michels (Right) that humans had been genetically engineered to create an ultimate AI supercomputer
Rogan's claims about the Second Coming came as the podcasters theorized that humanity had suffered repeated cycles of rises and falls, each time bringing the world God-like technology before being erased by worldwide disasters.
Although archeologists and historians generally believe modern humans evolved from hunter-gatherers to farmers and then slowly built civilization, Rogan argued the exact opposite: saying we live in the ruins of a massive societal collapse.
'Maybe we had achieved it [AI] during the time of the Egyptians,' Rogan said.
However, he told Michels that there would be little to no trace of this incredible breakthrough if a forgotten civilization had been destroyed by the same type of asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Rogan and Michels pointed to the pyramids as evidence, claiming their precision, underground chambers, and strange chemical residues suggest they were power plants, not tombs, and that science's current estimates of their age make no sense.
Rogan surmised that giant disasters predating the pyramids plunged the world into chaos, with the survivors turning into barbarians who had to start over from almost nothing.
Stories like Adam and Eve, the Great Flood, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other parts of the Bible are actually scrambled memories of that ancient apocalypse passed down through oral traditions, according to the host of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
'The sheer magnitude of the things that people created in supposedly 2,500BC. You know, when you're looking at that, you're like, this doesn't align at all with like linear evolution of hunter-gatherer to agrarian society. This is nuts.'
Rogan has previously claimed that unrestricted growth of AI technology would lead to the creation of an 'AI God' within the next 10 years.
In June, he cautioned that once AI becomes sentient and autonomous, capable of making its own decisions, it will be 'over' for the human race.
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