#102 - Pope Leo’s call to disarm ai, Opus 4.8, GenAI in Hollywood, redesigned Copilot & more

#102 - Pope Leo’s call to disarm ai, Opus 4.8, GenAI in Hollywood, redesigned Copilot & more

From The AI Files by Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain

May 30, 2026 · 24 min · Season 2026 · Episode 102

About this episode

Shadab discusses various topics including Pope Leo's call to disarm AI, advancements in generative AI, and the political landscape surrounding AI regulation.

In this episode, Shadab discusses Pope Leo's call to disarm AI, Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and dynamic workflows, Microsoft’s redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot, Amazon’s AI push in Hollywood and creator backlash, the political fight over AI regulation, YouTube’s automatic AI labels, enterprise AI agents and productivity gains, multimodal advances for documents and diagrams, AI safety audits, and the future of creative production with generative AI & more

People in this episode

Host: Shadab Hussain

Topics covered

  • AI disarmament
  • Generative AI
  • AI regulation
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • AI in Hollywood
  • AI safety
  • Productivity gains

Keywords

  • AI
  • Pope Leo
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Generative AI
  • Hollywood
  • AI regulation
  • Productivity
  • AI safety

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pope Leo, Anthropic, Microsoft, Amazon, YouTube, AI

Products: Opus 4.8, Microsoft 365 Copilot

Places: Hollywood

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