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 ar ...