“It 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. The FT editorial code of conduct specifically prohibits the use of AI in the writing process,” an editor’s note at the top of Hausmann’s piece says.<\/p>\n
The FT told Fox News Digital the publication was going to conduct an “editorial review process to look at this piece in more detail,” but otherwise pointed to the editor’s note.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK MAGAZINE SEVERS TIES WITH WRITER ROSS BARKAN, UPDATES 67 COLUMNS FOLLOWING PLAGIARISM PROBE<\/a><\/p>\n Ricardo Hausmann, a professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, participates in an economic conference in Madrid, Spain, on May 27, 2024. (Europa Press via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Harvard and Hausmann did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.<\/p>\n “The verdict on the first full year of the largest US tariff increase in almost a century arrived quietly, in the tables of the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. America\u2019s current account deficit in 2025 was $1.18tn \u2014 virtually identical to the year before. The most protectionist turn in living memory did not move the number it was meant to shrink,” the first paragraph of Hausmann’s piece read.<\/p>\n “That much was predictable \u2014 a matter of accounting necessity rather than economic argument,” the column continued. “A current account deficit is not a scorecard of trade cheating; it is the gap between what a country invests and what it saves, and tariffs alter neither.”<\/p>\n REP. TED LIEU: AI IS ALREADY TOO POWERFUL. WE NEED A KILL SWITCH BEFORE DISASTER STRIKES<\/a><\/p>\n AI apps Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. (Samuel Boivin\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n The piece by Hausmann garnered reaction online, as Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal wrote on X, “I have learned a lot from @ricardo_hausman, I’m a big appreciator of his thought, and have enjoyed talking with him. And yet I find this astonishing, both in its writing and its publication.”<\/p>\n Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan posted an image on X showing Pangram, an AI detection software, finding that 71% of the text was “AI-generated.”<\/p>\n A Harvard student and freelance writer, Alex Bronzini-Vender, wrote on X,<\/a> “Gotta be the worst AI slop I\u2019ve seen in a major publication.”<\/p>\n Hausmann is a professor at Harvard University’s<\/a> John F. Kennedy School of Government and the director of the Harvard Growth Lab.<\/p>\n This comes as higher education institutions are grappling with how to approach AI with their students. While many universities have AI polices and some professors have returned to paper tests and taken other measures aimed at preventing students from improperly using AI, Harvard University\u00a0senior research fellow Christopher Dede said colleges are focusing on the wrong problem and are not adequately preparing students to face a world in which AI is ubiquitous.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE<\/a><\/p>\n Three massive “Veritas” banners hang from the fa\u00e7ade of Widener Memorial Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 26. (Steve Rosenbach\/iStock)<\/p>\n “The problem is that our educational systems are geared to teaching reckoning, and their quality is measured by assessing reckoning, the GRE, the SAT, the LSAT, et cetera, et cetera,” Dede told Fox News Digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Ricardo](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ricardo-hausmann-harvard-madrid.jpg\")
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