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The episode discusses Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, its implications, and various related topics including elder care and technology ethics.

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONPope Leo XIV dropped roughly 43,000 words on AI in his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and Anthropic's co-founder sat at the Vatican to mark the moment. Jason and Julie work through what the Pope got right, the pragmatic warnings about power concentration and worker displacement, and where the document jumps ahead of the actual conversation by debating AI rights before we've even reckoned with what social media did to kids. Along the way: Julie's mom is dealing with delirium in a nursing facility, and a beeping air mattress becomes a perfect case for ambient AI that explains itself instead of just making noise. UnitedHealth is now running AI bot calls into nursing home rooms, refusing to admit it's a bot even when asked directly. Plus the case for family safe words in the deepfake era, voice-based prompt engineering as a side hustle waiting to happen, predatory subscription traps from Hulu to Apple iCloud, and why tech founders like Musk, Altman, and Amodei might be quietly building toward a god complex. TIME STAMPS00:00 - AI in elder care and Julie's mom's delirium02:47 - Deepfake safe words for vulnerable family members06:10 - UnitedHealth's AI bot…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason, Julie

Topics covered

• AI in elder care
• Pope Leo XIV encyclical
• deepfake safe words
• AI bot calls
• voice-based prompt engineering
• predatory subscriptions
• tech founders and power

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, UnitedHealth

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