Pope Leo Challenges Silicon Valley's AI Vision
Show notes
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word encyclical on AI and humanity, Silicon Valley's last-minute lobbying campaign that killed Trump's AI executive order, and Anthropic's Project Glasswing: 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities found using Claude Mythos Preview across the most important software in the world.
Also in this episode: AI-generated pro se lawsuits overwhelming federal courts, DeepSeek making its 75% price cut permanent at 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5, AI chatbots automating debt collection, a prompt injection bug inside Google AI Overviews, Robinhood's AI trading agents, Micron's $1 trillion market cap milestone, Suno's $5 billion raise, and more.
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CHAPTERS:
- 0:00 - Start
- 0:03:18 - Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical
- 0:03:44 - The encyclical
- 0:05:04 - Jeff's good bits
- 0:26:14 - Pressure from Silicon Valley helped block Trump’s expected order on AI
- 0:31:45 - DeepSeek To Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model
- 0:41:52 - Project Glasswing: An initial update
- 0:49:35 - Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits
- 0:52:57 - AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World
- 0:57:04 - Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for
- 1:01:16 - Spotify is narrating magazine articles now
- 1:05:21 - ElevenLabs’s new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
- 1:06:38 - Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI to Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases
- 1:07:20 - Micron hits $1 trillion market cap for the first time as stock surges 19%
- 1:08:33 - Scoop: Bond to lead round in music generator Suno, valuing it over $5B
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis Guest: NAME (if any, eliminate if none)
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