When a Man Says, “I Want to Change the World”
 The news sites about technology were the same on Monday February 16 as they were on the previous Friday.  Then came the less frequent story. One tech company and a lead programmer were not pursuing corporate level growth but instead, envisioning changing the world. Our minds tried to comprehend business world versus changing the world. The programmer, Peter Steinberger, told the world he wanted to change the world.
As a Christian with a mature knowledge of key Biblical words, it was that waving red flag statement leading me to investigate the word, ‘world’ in a concordance.  A massive number of passages have the word, ‘world’ from Genesis to Revelation. Every OT prophet, every gospel, every letter in the New Testament contains versus about the ‘world.’
Peter Steinberger is aligning OpenClaw with Sam Altman of OpenAI so that an agentic product can drive the agentic growth capabilities in their products. We expect max-level competition in the AI world from players like Anthropic and Google and yet, a statement reaching toward the goal of changing the world is more than radical competing or even transformational disruption. Rather, it’s impossible to change the world given a bomb or an AI agent. Reality eventually overrules many aspirations.
Where do I begin? On the truth I want to convey I’ll just stick with two substantive Bible verses from about 300: The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved. (Ps 93)
Mankind, in the beginning, as designed through God’s command, was to rule over the world, subdue it to include all creatures on earth [with his given authority but, never to “change the world.”]  (Gen. 1:26)
I hope this is good news because we do not want an AI agent nor its creator to change the world. All else is on the table for Mr. Steinberger. Change the code, change the theories, change the prompts, the LLM’s, change the hardware, etc. There is nothing wrong with wanting to change the world – unless you are serious. The history of mankind contains the eternal tempting allure for power to change the world which naturally has our present-day world with the same man from history. Completely incapable of changing the world and yet fully enabled to rule over it given that his will acknowledges the true authority of God.
Again and again, AI remains embedded in its binary: altruistic or dystopian, a power for mapping progress. But progress is as much philosophy as it is politics. Political progress means eliminating cultural values to bring the future imagined by power and revolution - concepts in Marxism. Here, the world doesn't change but millions are left in chaos for generations to come.
Then God said, let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over…every living creature…to fill the earth and subdue it. (Genesis 1:26)
The real progress needed at this time is acknowledging just how badly mankind has failed at changing the world he was only enabled to rule over.

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