Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

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

Written by Peter H. Diamandis | May 30, 2026 7:00:00 AM

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.

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