Mathematician Steven Strogatz Runs His Own Essay Through an AI Detector — It Says 100% Human
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-09-13
After publishing a long reflection on the 4,000-year tradition of human writing and what may be lost to AI, mathematician Steven Strogatz ran his own concluding passage through the AI detector Pangram — which judged it 100% human-written. His amused "Ha!" caps a thread both worried about losing something precious and accidentally benchmarking the detectors.
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