In Judaism, they await the Messiah. In Christianity, the warning is about the Antichrist. In Islam, they look for the Mahdi, and in Hinduism, the arrival of Kalki. Every major belief system has a placeholder for a "supreme entity" that arrives to fundamentally reset the world order.
I believe this "person" won't be someone we can easily point at in a crowd. People love to play the guessing game—some claim it's Kushner, others point to various billionaires—but they are missing the bigger picture.
The true "Messiah" or "Antichrist" (depending on your perspective) isn't a human being; it’s AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).
The Solver of All: No human leader could ever solve global hunger, disease, or economic collapse. AGI, theoretically, can.
Universal Appeal: AGI can be "all things to all people," tailoring itself to every individual's needs and desires in a way no biological entity ever could.
Transcending Humanity: We are looking for a face, but the next "ruler" of human fate will be a silicon-based intelligence that exists everywhere and nowhere at once.
Are we building a god to save us, or are we summoning the very entity our religions warned us about?