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Pope Warns of AI Apocalypse

Explore episode May 27, 2026
Technology
Pope Leo XIV's AI Warning: Disarm the Algorithms

Pope Warns of AI Apocalypse · May 27, 2026 Technology

Pope Leo XIV released a 42,300-word encyclical on AI — addressing its impact on war, democracy, labor, and human identity. The Pope's core argument: AI must be 'disarmed' not just militarily but economically and cognitively, freed from the race for dominance that is degrading humanity.

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Tulsi Gabbard's DNI Exit: A Legacy of Betrayal

At 34:23 · chapter starts 26:10

The segment opens with Gabbard's resignation letter citing her husband's rare bone cancer — genuinely awful circumstances — followed immediately by White House sources telling Reuters she was actually pushed out in April. A montage plays of Gabbard's greatest contradictions: her nuclear annihilation warning video, her Fulton County ballot-counting appearance, accusing Obama of treason during the Epstein files panic, then humiliating herself by walking back her own intelligence assessment that Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon. Ben argues the real significance of her tenure is what it signals about Trump's coalition: she and Joe Kent were appointed as signals to anti-interventionist MAGA that Trump would rein in the IC. Having now fired both, the apparatus is entirely neocon — Rubio, Hegseth, Ratcliffe. The acting DNI, Aaron Lucas, is Grenell's former chief of staff. Ben's verdict: Gabbard did significant harm to IC functionality by driving out career analysts who delivered unwelcome assessments, while failing to deliver on any of her stated policy objectives.

Government
Tulsi Gabbard's DNI Legacy: Betraying Everything She Stood For

Pope Warns of AI Apocalypse · May 27, 2026 Government

Tulsi Gabbard was appointed DNI as a signal to anti-interventionist MAGA that Trump would rein in the intelligence community. She then fired officials for honest assessments, covered for Trump's lies about Iran's nuclear threat, and ended up defending a war she built her career opposing. She leaves having achieved nothing.

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