Disgraced techbro launches app to 'hasten the coming of Christ's return'

The former CEO of Intel is now rolling out an artificial intelligence-powered app aimed at churches and faith communities — and is being particularly open about what's motivating him.

The Guardian reported Tuesday that Pat Gelsinger — who led Intel between 2021 and 2024 before he was forced out after being sued by shareholders — is heavily promoting his evangelical philosophy as the head of tech company Gloo. In March of this year, Gelsinger took the helm of Gloo, which is a combination AI chatbot and workspace platform for churches. Gloo boasts that it serves more than 140,000 "faith, ministry and nonprofit leaders."

Gelsinger, who is a born-again Christian, said he was passionate about combining AI with his Christian values, and said Gloo was his opportunity to develop a large language model (LLM) infused with fundamentalist Christian theology.

"My life mission has been [to] work on a piece of technology that would improve the quality of life of every human on the planet and hasten the coming of Christ’s return," Gelsinger said.

Gizmodo's A.J. Dellinger wrote Tuesday that Gelsinger's quote about the second coming of Christ is particularly alarming, as it "would spell the end of the humanity, which would not be great for every human on the planet."

"Luckily, Gelsinger’s attempts to expedite the second coming via selling churches on a chatbot subscription or whatever are probably no more likely to be a conduit to the End Times than those TikTokers predicting the Rapture," Dellinger quipped.

The former Intel CEO's forced retirement in 2024 came despite the semiconductor industry experiencing a boom in previous years. Intel's performance in the industry was lackluster in comparison to competitors like Nvidia and AMD. Just before Gelsinger was driven out of his role, Intel had laid off roughly 15,000 people, making up about 15 percent of its workforce.

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