Has the Pope become one of AI’s most important moral voices? Frank and Justin dig into Pope Leo XIV’s warning that artificial intelligence needs to be “disarmed”, and what it says about autonomous weapons, algorithmic power, Big Tech, Anthropic, and who gets to shape the future of AI.

Plus: OpenAI’s relentless release schedule, Anthropic’s new model, the delayed AI jobs apocalypse, Elizabeth Warren’s call to tax AI, and the bizarre rise of AI-generated fruit slop on YouTube.

Is the Pope right to challenge AI’s concentration of power?

00:13 Would Polymarket have predicted this?
01:34 Do AI releases count as news anymore?
02:34 Why must OpenAI ship every Thursday?
03:33 Has the Pope declared war on AI?
06:31 Is the Pope AI’s moral guardian angel?
08:35 Is Big Tech the new Roman Empire?
12:02 Why was Anthropic at the Vatican?
13:14 Is Anthropic baking in Christian culture?
15:10 Could AI models accidentally find religion?
18:04 Was the jobs apocalypse just delayed?
20:43 Is Elizabeth Warren right about taxing AI?
25:58 Would an AI tax just help DeepSeek?
28:39 Should Chinese models face AI tariffs?
30:07 Do we finally have the right AI debate?
31:03 Is AI fruit better than Netflix?
33:56 Is AI fruit as bad as Andrew Tate?
36:46 Is YouTube drowning in AI slop?

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► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSED

• Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
• LIVE | Presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas from the Vatican | May 25, 2026
• Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back their AI jobs apocalypse prophecies as they eye blockbuster IPOs
• Elizabeth Warren calls for taxing AI industry to 'invest in people’
• The misogyny-fuelled plotlines behind AI fruit dramas on TikTok

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