Pope Leo Challenges Silicon Valley's AI Vision

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The episode discusses Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, Silicon Valley's influence on AI policy, and various AI-related developments and challenges.

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.Full episodes, show notes, and subscribe links at aiinside.show. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. 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…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis

Topics covered

• AI and humanity
• Silicon Valley lobbying
• AI vulnerabilities
• AI in legal systems
• AI in finance
• AI technology updates

Keywords

• AI encyclical
• Silicon Valley
• Anthropic
• AI lawsuits
• DeepSeek
• AI trading
• Google AI
• AI vulnerabilities

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Silicon Valley, Anthropic, Google, Robinhood, DeepSeek, Suno, Micron

Products: Claude Mythos Preview, GPT-5.5

Books & works: 42,300-word encyclical

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