Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel recently met with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss many topics, including innovation, life extension technology, the antichrist, and transhumanism.

The topic of transhumanism was brought up when Douthat asked Thiel, "Should the human race survive?"

Thiel responded, "Yes. But I also would like us to radically solve these problems. And so it's always, I don't know, yeah — transhumanism."

The co-founder of Palantir added,  "The ideal was this radical transformation where your human, natural body gets transformed into an immortal body."

He later stated that transgenderism doesn't go far enough when it comes to changing one's body and shared, "We want more than cross-dressing or changing your sex organs. We want you to be able to change your heart and change your mind and change your whole body."

In case you're unfamiliar with transhumanism, it's an ideology that promotes using technology and science to enhance human capabilities.

Essentially, transhumanists welcome an era where humans merge with machines.

Later in the interview, Thiel and Douthat discuss the antichrist.

Thiel shared that "The way the Antichrist would take over the world is you talk about Armageddon nonstop. You talk about existential risk nonstop, and this is what you need to regulate."

The New York Times provided a transcript:

Douthat: You have been giving talks recently about the concept of the Antichrist, which is a Christian concept, an apocalyptic concept. What does that mean to you? What is the Antichrist?

Thiel: All right. Well, I could talk about it for a long time. I think there's always a question of how we articulate some of these existential risks, some of the challenges we have, and they're all framed in this sort of runaway dystopian science text. There's a risk of nuclear war, there's a risk of environmental disaster. Maybe something specific, like climate change, although there are lots of other ones we've come up with. There's a risk of bioweapons. You have all the different sci-fi scenarios. Obviously, there are certain types of risks with A.I.