Pope Leo vs. AI, GPT 5.5 Beats Claude, and Sam Altman Walks Back Job Apocalypse | EP #259

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 108 minutes

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This episode is a sprawling Moonshots roundup with three big pillars: AI governance and religion, AI’s impact on jobs and entrepreneurship, and a moon/space-compute future centered on SpaceX, Starlink, and Tesla. Education survey: Moonshots.com/survey Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360 Salim Ismail is the founder of Open ExO, a GP at Exponential Venture Capital/The Organizational Singularity Fund and a sought after global speaker and thought leader. Apply for Salim’s Pilot Program: https://openexo.com/organizational-singularity-pilot?video=I9c8STV7Hnw Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy Your body is incredibly good at hiding disease. Schedule a call with Fountain Life to add healthy decades to your life, and to learn more about their Memberships: https://www.fountainlife.com/peter _ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Substack Website Xprize Connect with Dave: Web X LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Connect with Salim: LinkedIn X Apply for Salim’s Pilot Program Subscribe to Salim’s YouTube channel Exponential Venture Capital Resources: https://openexo.com/resource-hub Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Substack Spotify Threads Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on May 28th, 2026 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pope Leo the 14th warns of AI risks and just dropped a 42,000 word encyclical on AI.
0:08.3	The Vatican has seemingly staked out the first major religion position against AI personhood.
0:15.0	This is the first technology that forces us to define humanity.
0:18.4	The broader problem is...
0:19.6	There is a brand new coding benchmark,
0:22.3	Deep Software Engineering.
0:23.7	GPT 5.5 scored 70%.
0:26.4	Claude Opus 4.7 scored 54%.
0:29.5	This too will saturate.
0:31.1	Sam Altman, he admitted he was wrong.
0:33.0	The CEO of Open AI, who spent last year warning
0:35.6	about the mass white-collar displacement now says, quote,
0:38.7	I don't think we're going to have that kind of job apocalypse that some of the companies in our
0:44.1	space are talking about.
0:45.1	Yeah, so here's what's really happening under the covers.
0:50.6	Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
0:55.7	Everybody, welcome to another episode of moonshots.
0:58.5	I am here with my extraordinary moonshot mates, Dave Lundon, our emperor of all things exponential
1:05.4	investing.
1:06.0	Alex, our in-house polymath.
1:08.6	And of course, Salim, the father now of the organizational singularity.
1:13.3	Salim, we had an incredible episode that we recorded.
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