{"id":816039,"date":"2026-08-17T00:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816039\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:56:12","slug":"harvard-prof-slammed-for-using-ai-to-write-to-write-anti-trump-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816039\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard prof slammed for using AI to write to write anti-Trump op-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard professor is in hot water over claims that an anti-President Trump opinion article he wrote for the Financial Times was almost entirely AI-generated, with some branding it \u201cslop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article, by former Venezuelan government minister Ricardo Hausmann, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7ff4321e-3f96-4f7b-8f2d-4fefa4773a5d?sharetype=blocked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">now includes a disclaimer from the FT<\/a> following its publication on\u00a0Thursday,<\/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 reads the editorial note at the top of the piece.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40366209\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ricardo-hausmann-director-center-international-137622987.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo Hausmann, Director of the Center for International Development, participating in a dialogue on economic complexity and policies.\" class=\"wp-image-40366209\"  \/>Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann has been accused of using AI to write an op-ed in the Financial Times. Europa Press via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FT editorial code of conduct specifically prohibits the use of AI in the writing process,\u201d the statement continues.<\/p>\n<p>It came after the op-ed, which criticized President Trump\u2019s tariffs, was called out on social media over its stilted prose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGotta be the worst AI slop I\u2019ve seen in a major publication,\u201d one\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexbronzini\/status\/2087930539164434493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X user wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another X user\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrendanNyhan\/status\/2088704705450987778\/photo\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shared a grab from AI detector Pangram<\/a>, which showed that the 841-word piece was 71% AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when many in academia are fighting back against growing numbers of students relying on AI for their work, the idea of a top Harvard Kennedy School of Government academic using the technology for their work was particularly dispiriting.<\/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 bemoaned Michael Socolow of the University of Maine in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MichaelSocolow\/status\/2088354385386463609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40366214\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/president-donald-trump-speaks-meeting-137018900.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office.\" class=\"wp-image-40366214\"  \/>Hausmann\u2019s FT column criticized President Trump\u2019s tariffs. AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin<\/p>\n<p>Even fans of Hausmann\u2019s work appeared horrified that such a respected economist would use AI to write an article, which was then placed behind a paywall.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg\u2019s Joe Weisenthal described how he had \u201clearned a lot\u201d from Hausmann and \u201cenjoyed talking with him\u201d in the past in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheStalwart\/status\/2088295075591622746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find this astonishing, both in its writing and its publication,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hausmann, 70, a former government minister in his native Venezuela, did not respond immediately to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times and the Harvard Kennedy School were also approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Harvard professor is in hot water over claims that an anti-President Trump opinion article he wrote for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,12,20231,10815,111,759,74,343612,194],"class_list":["post-816039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-donald-trump","tag-harvard-university","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-tariffs","tag-technology","tag-the-financial-times","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}