A collection of speeches and writings by Pope Leo XIV has been certified as human-authored by Proudly Human, an Australian company. This comes less than two months after the Pope declared artificial intelligence the greatest threat to humanity.
This certification highlights the growing need for tools to distinguish between human and AI-generated content, particularly in sensitive areas like religious discourse, as AI's capabilities expand.
A collection of speeches and writings by Pope Leo XIV has been certified as human-authored by Proudly Human, an Australian company. This development comes less than two months after the Pope declared artificial intelligence the greatest threat to humanity.
Proudly Human, spearheaded by Australia’s former chief scientist Dr. Alan Finkel, reviewed the Pope's writings in collaboration with the Australian Catholic University and cardinals in the Vatican. The certification process involves authors signing up, undergoing ID checks, and declaring that AI was not used for initial drafts or sentence construction. Proudly Human then employs a suite of AI detection tools and an averaging algorithm to verify authorship.
In May, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, warned of the risks associated with artificial intelligence, cautioning against its potential to dominate humanity and emphasizing the need for AI to be human-friendly and accessible. Finkel expressed confidence in the human authorship of the Pope's works, with Proudly Human certifying the collection as human-created within a day.
Finkel hopes that such certifications can serve as a trust mark for readers, informing them when content is human-generated, especially for religious figures. He believes it is a fundamental right for people to know the origin of the content they consume, particularly when it comes to religious wisdom shared in sermons.
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