A papal document released this month that cautioned against the risks artificial intelligence poses to mankind may have ironically been written in part by AI technology itself. The pontiff’s encyclical about artificial intelligence generated global attention as it highlighted potential threats from the emerging technology. However, analysis of the written material suggests that artificial intelligence may have contributed to creating portions of the document. Researcher Lynch Zhang published findings on substack after running Pope Leo’s encyclical through detection software designed to identify AI-generated content. Zhang reported that the analysis determined certain sections were completely produced by artificial intelligence, although not necessarily the portions authored directly by the pope.
