Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?
Published: (May 26, 2026 at 08:38 PM EDT)
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Source: The Verge
Source: The Verge
Analysis of Magnifica Humanitas
It is possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV’s latest encyclical on the impact of artificial intelligence on humanity.
Detection results
- An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the LessWrong forum found that certain paragraphs of Magnifica Humanitas were 40 % to 100 % likely generated by AI, according to the popular AI‑detector Pangram.
Observed AI‑generated traits
- The document contains traits commonly seen in AI‑generated text, such as a higher frequency of the word “genuinely,” a term frequently used by Anthropic’s Claude.
- These traits differ from those found in previous encyclicals.