How dangerous is an AI-writing detector that is mostly accurate? A profile of Pangram argues a mostly-right detector is worse than a broken one: at a one-in-10,000 false-positive rate across 30M+ students turning in dozens of assignments each, the wrongful accusations never stop. And the black-box verdict leaves the accused nothing to appeal.

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synesisAI Detectors Are Reliable Enough to Be Dangerous – synesisA profile of the AI-writing detector Pangram argues that a mostly-accurate detector deployed at scale is riskier than a broken one.
Jul 5, 2026, 20:00 UTCen