IM 872: Infinite Jeffs - Why the Pope's AI Manifesto Matters
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 154 minutes
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Summary
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in?
- The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity
- Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car
- Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search
- There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice
- White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI
- Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing
- Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public
- Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model
- Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes
- ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
- David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order
- I'm tired of talking to AI
- In Memoriam: Don Newhouse
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
Guest: Rick Sammon
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:01.9 | Jeff Jarvis is here. |
| 0:02.9 | Paris has the week off, but guess what? |
| 0:04.5 | Father Robert Balliser is here, the digital Jesuit. |
| 0:07.8 | He and Jeff have a lot to say about the Pope's latest encyclical on AI. |
| 0:12.0 | We'll talk about that. |
| 0:13.1 | Plus interview our guest. |
| 0:15.1 | My favorite photographer, Rick Salmon is here. |
| 0:18.2 | Coming up next on Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:23.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.2 | From people you trust. |
| 0:27.7 | This is Twit. |
| 0:32.0 | This is Intelligent Machines with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino. |
| 0:36.1 | Episode 872, recorded recorded Wednesday May 27th |
| 0:40.3 | 2026 infinite Jeffs it's time for intelligent machines to show we cover AI robotics and all the |
| 0:49.4 | smart things all around us all the time hello everybody I'm Leoo leoport jeff jarvis is here the emeritus professor |
| 0:58.1 | of journalistic innovation at the craig newmark graduate school of journalism at the city |
| 1:05.6 | university of new york he is also the author of a brand new book. Coming out in a couple of months, hot type, |
| 1:12.1 | very hot, all about the line of type, the history of the machine that changed everything. |
| 1:18.9 | He's also the author of magazine and Gutenberg parentheses, many other fine volumes. Hello, |
| 1:24.6 | Joe. Thank you for wearing your clericalical college today. Yes. I appreciate it because |
| 1:29.9 | Paris has the day off, but we're thrilled to have Father Robert Ballast. Yes, we're thrilled at any time, |
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