The Omega Point is a concept of the Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: the final state toward which cosmic evolution would converge, when the "noosphere," the layer of thought that humanity weaves over the biosphere, reaches its maximal unification, identified with Christ. He developed it in Le Phénomène humain, written between 1938 and 1940 and published only in 1955, after his death, because Rome had denied him permission (Teilhard de Chardin, 1955/1959). The physicist Frank Tipler recast it in cosmological terms: in a universe that recollapses, a civilization spreading through the whole cosmos could perform an unbounded number of computations in finite time, resurrect the dead by emulation and become indistinguishable from God (Tipler, 1994).
In San Francisco the term survives as the background theology of tech enthusiasm. The singularity, a benevolent superintelligence, the internet as noosphere and models trained on nearly everything the species has written all lend themselves to Teilhardian readings. The song announces it with the urgency of a street preacher: "The Omega Point's coming soon" (osmarks, n.d.).
The criticisms are old and severe. Peter Medawar reviewed Teilhard's book in 1961 with a harshness that became famous (Medawar, 1961), and the cosmologist George Ellis called Tipler's "a masterpiece of pseudoscience"; moreover, the 1998 discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating undermines the final collapse his version requires. The term's interest for this glossary lies elsewhere: it shows how much of the discourse on AI inherits religious structures (an end of history, a unified consciousness, redemption through computation). Santelli (2026) points to this when he distrusts "one more messianic movement" (un movimiento mesiánico más), and Mitchell records the "technological Rapture" label with which a journalist dismissed Kurzweil's singularity (M. Mitchell, 2019, ch. 3). Doomers and accelerationists share, on this point, an eschatological grammar; they differ only on whether the end is heaven or hell (doomer).