
Did AI Write the Pope's Encyclical? Scanner Data, Governance, and What Nobody Is Acting On
The Other AI: Audio Briefings on Augmented Intelligence and AI GovernanceShow Notes
Did Pope Leo XIV plagiarize? Did the Pope use AI to construct Magnifica Humanitas? Those were the first two questions when I started reading the encyclical. I ran every chapter through Originality.ai. Every one flagged. Plagiarism scores between 79% and 96%. Chapter Three, the chapter on technology, scored 72% likely AI written. Both readings were wrong. The plagiarism flags came from republications of the encyclical across the internet after its release. The scanner was matching the Pope's words against copies of the Pope's words. The AI detection scores came from topic overlap, not authorship. In this episode, the hosts unpack what happened when an AI governance practitioner ran a papal encyclical through an AI scanner and discovered the tools are functionally useless without human oversight. They dig into why AI detection fails, what it means that a practitioner and a Pope arrived at the same governance diagnosis from opposite directions, and why the entire field can name the problem but nobody seems able to act on it. The conversation covers the scanner failure, peer-reviewed research confirming AI detection tools do not work reliably, the convergence between secular governance frameworks and Catholic moral teaching, the authorship question, and the call for Augmented Intelligence: human governance at pace, not a pause, not a slowdown, not unchecked adoption. Based on the article by Basil C. Puglisi, MPA. Full article: https://basilpuglisi.com/did-ai-write-magnifica-humanitas/ Read the original papers at basilpuglisi.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033dvhzMIcWLdY7IUgsu7F Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1896506152 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/923d1a79-533f-4623-bae3-e2ba83453dfb YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLchpU2bIYoEEBh2hdY-BVP9ckyTPiHOAQ This episode was AI generated under NotebookLM as a Deep Dive audio overview, not a polished product. It may contain errors. The full article at the link above is the canonical source. #AIassisted using HAIA Ecosystem
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