Descriptions:
Episode 259 of Peter Diamandis’s Moonshots podcast covers four major AI developments in one sitting, with co-hosts Dave Blondon and Alex offering commentary on each. The lead story is Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitus,” a 42,000-word document calling for government regulation of AI, worker protections, and a ban on autonomous weapons. The hosts note the document coins the term “Babel syndrome” and that Google, Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI had all quietly lobbied the Vatican before its release — while evidence suggests the encyclical itself may have been partially written with AI assistance.
The second story is a new deep software engineering benchmark on which GPT 5.5 scored 70% against Claude Opus 4.7’s 54%, a gap the hosts contextualize as likely temporary given benchmark saturation trends. Third, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly walked back his earlier predictions of mass white-collar job displacement, now stating he doesn’t believe a “job apocalypse” is coming — a notable reversal given his prior statements.
The episode closes with analyst projections from OSS Capital suggesting Anthropic could surpass Alphabet’s total revenue by 2028 and reach $2 trillion by 2030, starting from a current $9 billion base. The hosts discuss how Anthropic’s token-based pricing model gives it unusual leverage to adjust effective revenue per user — including the observation that making Claude Opus 4.7 more verbose effectively doubled revenue per session without a price change.
📺 Source: Peter H. Diamandis · Published May 30, 2026
🏷️ Format: Podcast
