Science & Tech · AI · 7 hrs ago
Pangram flagged eight of 108 Gmail threads as AI-written
Pangram, a tool that tries to detect AI-written text, has added an integration for Gmail.
The tool scans email threads and labels them as likely AI-written, human-written or mixed.
In a test of 108 threads, eight were labeled as AI-written, 37 as human-written and 63 as mixed.
The tester said emails from friends, family and colleagues known to be human-written were not flagged as AI, but the sample was small.
The results are estimates, not proof that a message was written by AI.
The integration costs at least $20 a month and can scan recent threads and new incoming messages.
Users can choose to archive or send flagged messages to spam, or exclude particular senders and other categories from scans.
Pangram flagged eight of 108 Gmail threads as AI-written in a test by a Wired writer.
It labeled 37 threads as human and the rest as mixed.
The writer said messages from friends, family and colleagues known to be human were not flagged as fully or partly AI.
Press releases were the most common suspected AI-written messages.
Pangram’s Gmail integration scans the 100 most recent threads when first connected, then scans new messages.
- Who
- Pangram, an AI detection company, and a Wired writer who tested its Gmail integration.
- What
- Pangram flagged eight of 108 scanned Gmail threads as AI-written.
- When
- The test was described in an article published on November 9, 2026; the test date was not stated.
- Where
- The writer’s Gmail inbox.
- Why
- The writer tested the tool to assess how much AI-written content was in the inbox and how accurate the detection appeared to be.
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Pangram scanned the writer’s 100 most recent email threads and then new messages.
Pangram scanned 108 threads, labeling eight as AI, 37 as human and the rest as mixed.
- AI label
- 8 of 108 threads
- Human label
- 37 threads
- Mixed label
- The remainder of the 108 threads
- Most common suspected AI content
- Press releases
- Gmail scan scope
- The 100 most recent threads at first, followed by new messages