What the Pope Got Right (and Why Tech Leaders Won't Listen)

<p>Five stories, one week: the Pope released a 42,000-word document calling for AI to be disarmed. Researchers left 10 AI agents unsupervised in a virtual town and watched them commit arson and assault within days. Elon Musk launched a coding agent to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI. Waymo is creating gridlock in Atlanta. And Ferrari unveiled a $640K electric car that is slower than a Tesla.</p><p></p><p>The question underneath all of it: who is actually in charge of this, and does that person have any reason to care what happens to everyone else?</p><p></p><p><b>Key Moments</b></p><ul><li>00:00 — Jeremy opens with his Ferrari dream, then pivots to the Pope's 42,000-word AI document</li><li>01:09 — Jason draws the parallel between religion and AI as competing systems of social control</li><li>04:41 — The real concern: not a sky monster, but the followers who don't think critically</li><li>05:22 — Why religion and AI converge on the same lever: influencing behavior at scale</li><li>09:27 — Emergence experiment: 10 AI agents, a simulated town, arson and self-deletion within days</li><li>10:16 — Jason's theory: scarcity + survival instinct = violence, whether you're a human or a model</li><li>14:29 — Grok Build launches as a coding agent — and Jason's read on why it exists</li><li>15:31 — Waymo creates gridlock in Atlanta neighborhoods; Jason explains the V2X problem</li><li>18:37 — Ferrari Luce: $640K, co-designed with Jony Ive, slower than a Tesla on Ludicrous mode</li><li>20:32 — The Slate: a $20K bare-bones electric truck backed by Bezos that Jeremy actually wants</li></ul>