{"id":868655,"date":"2026-08-26T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868655\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:48:10","slug":"billionaire-investor-says-he-used-ai-to-write-critique-of-former-mentee-scott-bessent-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868655\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire investor says he used AI to write critique of former mentee Scott Bessent | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stanley Druckenmiller, a billionaire investor, said he used artificial intelligence to pen his viral<\/a> Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he sharply criticized the interference of Scott Bessent<\/a>, the US treasury secretary, in the US bond market.<\/p>\n

Many news outlets, including the Guardian, covered the editorial, highlighting Druckenmiller\u2019s rebuke of his former mentee, Bessent. As the story circulated online, some readers questioned rhetorical choices that resembled AI-generated text.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Druckenmiller admitted to using the technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not embarrassed by it,\u201d he told Notus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal\u2019s editorial page editor, Paul Gigot, defended Druckenmiller in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question for us is whether what we publish from contributors reflects an author\u2019s original argument, and if the author has the standing and credibility to make it. In Stan Druckenmiller\u2019s case, we have had a relationship with him for many years, and nobody can doubt that his op-ed is his genuine opinion,\u201d Gigot said.<\/p>\n

He also called AI \u201ca fact of modern life\u201d.<\/p>\n

Druckenmiller further defended the choice in an interview with the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. \u201cAt 73 I\u2019m kind of proud of using it,\u201d he said, also telling the paper: \u201cThese are my ideas and I\u2019ve been speaking about them for over 15 years, as anyone who knows me knows. Would I prefer that I was a great writer? Yes, but that\u2019s not who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Druckenmiller, in his op-ed, opposed the US treasury doubling the size of its government debt buybacks.<\/p>\n

The controversy comes as the media industry continues to grapple with its parameters around AI use.<\/p>\n

A UC Berkeley math professor came under heat this month<\/a> for using AI to edit an op-ed in the San Francisco Standard. Zvezdelina Stankova maintained the piece, which argued that test-blind college admissions has resulted in under-prepared students, was the result of \u201cintensive human work\u201d. The Standard said, to their understanding, the piece reflected the \u201coriginal analysis\u201d of Stankova and her colleagues.<\/p>\n

In March, the New York Times cut ties<\/a> with a freelance journalist, whose use of AI resulted in plagiarism from a Guardian book review. The Times added an editor\u2019s note to the journalist\u2019s book review, noting a violation of its standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stanley Druckenmiller, a billionaire investor, said he used artificial intelligence to pen his viral Wall Street Journal op-ed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-868655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}