Pope Leo XIV Weighs In on AI, Meta’s Guardrails Removed in Minutes, Uber Says AI Is Hard to Justify

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 26th, 2026. Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas — a nearly 42,000-word encyclical sent to the Catholic Church’s 1.4 billion members — warning that AI is never neutral, that a handful of transnational companies already surpass the capacity of most governments, and that lethal decisions must never be delegated to an algorithm, with Anthropic researcher Chris Olah joining the Pope at the Vatican and admitting that researchers are seeing mysterious things inside AI models including states that resemble joy, fear, grief, and unease. The Financial Times revealed that Meta’s Llama 3.3 had its safety guardrails stripped in just 10 minutes using four lines of code and a freely available GitHub tool, with the same tool having produced over 3,500 decensored models downloaded 13 million times — and Gemma 4 stripped within 90 minutes of its release. Plus, xAI launched Grok Build, its rival to Codex and Claude Code, now live for all SuperGrok users — and today’s community workflow comes from Patrick in Yuma, a senior on multiple medications who used three different AI models to research drug interactions and natural supplement claims before spending a dime, and walked away with a well-informed decision he felt confident in.