Harvard professor caught using AI to condense Financial Times op-ed trashing Trump tariffs
A Harvard professor is facing criticism for using AI to condense a longer iteration of an opinion piece written for the Financial Times (FT) on Thursday."Trump is taxing the dark matter that pays America’s way," read the headline of the piece by Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann. The piece was published by the FT on August 13."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.
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A Harvard professor is facing criticism for using AI to condense a longer iteration of an opinion piece written for the Financial Times (FT) on Thursday."Trump is taxing the dark matter that pays America’s way," read the headline of the piece by Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann. The piece was published by the FT on August 13."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.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.NEW YORK MAGAZINE SEVERS TIES WITH WRITER ROSS BARKAN, UPDATES 67 COLUMNS FOLLOWING PLAGIARISM PROBEHarvard and Hausmann did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment."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’s current account deficit in 2025 was $1.18tn — virtually identical to the year before.
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- A Harvard professor is facing criticism for using AI to condense a longer iteration of an opinion piece written for the Financial Times (FT) on Thursday."Trump is taxing the dark matter that pays America’s way," read the headline of the piece by Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann. The piece was published by the FT on August 13."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.
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