{"id":909,"date":"2026-05-27T01:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:08:52","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-magnifica-humanitas-ai-pangram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It\u2019s possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV\u2019s latest encyclical about AI\u2019s impact on humanity. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/posts\/wRNJZz2iYrfDaSDdz\/claude-author-of-the-humanitas\">analysis<\/a> by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html\"><em>Magnifica Humanitas<\/em><\/a> to be between 40 percent and 100 percent written by AI, according to the popular AI detector Pangram.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The document includes known traits that appear in AI-generated writing, such as a higher use of the word \u201cgenuinely\u201d \u2014 which crops up in writing by Anthropic\u2019s Claude \u2014 than previous encyclicals, Zhang says. Another person ran the text of the document section by section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/posts\/GbWwesBnetyiomxEH\/many-portions-of-magnifica-humanitas-appear-to-be-ai-written\">through Pangram<\/a>, finding that 62 percent of its first chapter was flagged as AI generated. When <em>The Verge<\/em> ran roughly 2,000 words of the document through Pangram, it estimated that 46 percent was AI-written.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-pullquote qnnwq0\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup qnnwq2 _1xwtict9\">AI detection isn\u2019t foolproof<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Still, other portions register as being written by humans. Zhang notes that Pangram flagged some sections as \u201cessentially 0% AI.\u201d The first 20 paragraphs of the last four encyclicals, when run through Pangram, had a 100 percent confidence of being human written. And a transcript of Pope Leo\u2019s speech, run through Pangram, was also rated as 100 percent human.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">AI detection isn\u2019t foolproof. Different AI detectors can display different results, and even when there\u2019s consensus there\u2019s no guarantee they\u2019re correct. But Pangram is generally respected among AI researchers. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pangram.com\/blog\/all-about-false-positives-in-ai-detectors\">March 2025<\/a>, Pangram said it estimated its false positive rate of reporting human-written work as AI-generated \u201cto be approximately 1 in 10,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Encyclicals are lengthy letters published by the pope, meant to impart teachings that address important moral and social challenges of the time, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/25\/world\/europe\/pope-leo-encyclical-ai.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. This encyclical is the pope\u2019s first, with the most recent one written by Pope Francis in October 2024. It\u2019s also the first to focus on AI and its wide-ranging influences, with Pope Leo notably presenting it alongside Christopher Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Vatican didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/937801\/pope-leo-xiv-magnifica-humanitas-ai-pangram\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV\u2019s latest encyclical about AI\u2019s impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Magnifica Humanitas to be between 40 percent and 100 percent written by AI, according to the popular AI detector Pangram. 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