{"id":4511,"date":"2026-08-17T04:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:36:57","slug":"harvard-professor-slammed-for-allegedly-relying-on-ai-in-anti-trump-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4511","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Professor Slammed For Allegedly Relying On AI In Anti-Trump Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A star economist at Harvard is taking heavy criticism over accusations that artificial intelligence did most of the work on his anti-Trump column.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4509\">Trump Orders US To \u2018Substantially Reduce\u2019 Joint Military Exercises, Citing \u2018Unthreatening And Respectful\u2019 Foe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Hausmann wrote the opinion piece attacking President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs for the Financial Times, which ran it Thursday. He is the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School and director of Harvard\u2019s Growth Lab. The outlet later attached an editorial note to the article conceding that AI had played a role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer draft of this column prior to submission to the FT and our own editorial involvement,\u201d the note reads, according to the Financial Times. The paper added that its code of conduct bars AI from the writing process. <strong>(RELATED: Alleged Plagiarist Academic Called Police On Colleague For Questioning Inconsistencies In His Work)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Readers flagged the column on social media over its wooden prose before the disclaimer appeared. One X user called it the worst AI slop yet seen in a major outlet. Another posted a screenshot from the detection tool Pangram indicating the 841-word piece was 71% AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4507\">Hakeem Jeffries Punts On Adopting Socialist Agenda As New Polling Shows Dems Embracing It Over Capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pangram and its chief executive, Max Spero, have become a frequent authority in disputes over AI authorship, though the tool\u2019s reliability remains contested, according to Slate. The Guardian dismissed one Pangram accusation against a longtime staffer as preposterous. A separate case saw the detector score a novel at 78% AI, a finding that helped sink the author\u2019s book deal even as she denied using the technology, according to Fortune.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be very difficult this academic year trying to encourage students to write persuasively with creativity, individuality, and style\u2026 when a star Econ professor at Harvard Kennedy School publishes such easily ID\u2019ed AI slop in the Financial Times,\u201d Michael Socolow of the University of Maine wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg\u2019s Joe Weisenthal, who has praised the economist in the past, wrote on X that he found the episode \u201castonishing, both in its writing and its publication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4505\">Newly Minted Attorney General Todd Blanche Refuses NBC Host\u2019s Pledge To \u2018Always Act Independently\u2019 Of White House<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard professor faces backlash after the Financial Times flagged AI use in his anti-Trump op-ed, with critics calling the tariff piece AI slop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1183,31,621],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-artifical-intelligence","tag-donald-trump","tag-harvard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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