Pope Leo Challenges Silicon Valley's AI Vision

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 (nytimes.com/2026/05/25/world/europe/pope-leo-e…)

• 0:03:44 - The encyclical (vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/events/event.dir…)

• 0:05:04 - Jeff's good bits (medium.com/whither-news/pope-leo-and-human-int…)

• 0:26:14 - Pressure from Silicon Valley helped block Trump’s expected order on AI (washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/22/last-mi…)

• 0:31:45 - DeepSeek To Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-23/deepsee…)

• 0:41:52 - Project Glasswing: An initial update (anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update)

• 0:49:35 - Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits (nytimes.com/2026/05/25/us/politics/artificial-…)

• 0:52:57 - AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World (wired.com/story/ai-takes-over-debt-collection)

• 0:57:04 - Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for (theverge.com/tech/936176/google-ai-overviews-s…)

• 1:01:16 - Spotify is narrating magazine articles now (theverge.com/entertainment/937126/spotify-long…)

• 1:05:21 - ElevenLabs’s new music generation model can switch genres mid-track (techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/elevenlabss-new-musi…)

• 1:06:38 - Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI to Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases (wsj.com/tech/ai/robinhood-lets-customers-use-a…)

• 1:07:20 - Micron hits $1 trillion market cap for the first time as stock surges 19% (cnbc.com/2026/05/26/micron-stock-trillion-mark…)

• 1:08:33 - Scoop: Bond to lead round in music generator Suno, valuing it over $5B (axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/05/26/suno-spotif…)

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