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lesswrong ai · May 26, 2026

Analysis claims Pope Leo's AI encyclical partially written by AI

an analysis claims pope leo xiv's first encyclical on ai was partially written by an llm, citing statistical anomalies and pangram detector results.

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a detailed technical analysis alleges that the vatican's first encyclical addressing artificial intelligence contains substantial text generated by large language models. the author supports this claim with pangram ai detector results, which flagged specific paragraphs as having between 40% and 100% probability of being ai-generated, while backtesting on historical encyclicals yielded zero flags. the report argues this is not a translation artifact, citing that statistical markers and stylistic choices appear in the original italian text and differ significantly from past papal writings.

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