{"slug": "billionaire-investor-stanley-druckenmiller-admits-he-used-ai-to-write-wsj-op-ed", "title": "Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller admits he used AI to write WSJ op-ed bashing Bessent", "summary": "Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, founder of Duquesne Capital, admitted Tuesday that he used AI to write a Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's debt buyback plan, saying 'of course I used AI' and 'I write everything using AI now for the same reason I use a calculator when I do math problems.' The Wall Street Journal's editorial page editor Paul Gigot defended the use, stating 'AI is a fact of modern life' and that the piece reflects Druckenmiller's genuine opinion, while NOTUS reported that AI detection tool Pangram flagged the op-ed as AI-written.", "body_md": "# Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller admits he used AI to write WSJ op-ed bashing Bessent\n\nSee more of our coverage in your search results.\n\n[Add The New York Post on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=nypost.com)\n\nBillionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller admitted Tuesday that he used AI to pen [a scathing Wall Street Journal op-ed](https://www.wsj.com/opinion/let-the-bond-market-speak-81529d74) bashing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s debt buybacks.\n\nDruckenmiller – the founder of Duquesne Capital who has been described as a mentor to Bessent early in his hedge fund trading career – defended his undisclosed use of AI to write the piece, arguing that it was a no-brainer.\n\nIn an interview with [digital news outlet NOTUS](https://www.notus.org/media/stanley-druckenmillers-wsj-op-ed-bessent-ai), Druckenmiller said “of course I used AI” when writing the column, which generated online buzz about Bessent and Druckenmiller’s relationship.\n\n“There’s a reason I moved from an English major to being an economics major,” said[ Druckenmiller, 73. ](https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/business/stan-druckenmiller-opposed-to-trump-tariffs-exceeding-10/)“I’m not embarrassed by it … I write everything using AI now for the same reason I use a calculator when I do math problems.”\n\nNOTUS claimed it used Pangram, an AI detection tool, to scan Druckenmiller’s op-ed and found that it had been written using AI after several social media posts made similar allegations.\n\nPaul Gigot, the Journal’s editorial page editor, defended Druckenmiller’s use of the new technology, saying what matters is the integrity of the content.\n\n“AI is a fact of modern life. People will use it to assist in their work and their writing, including with research, checking grammar, editing and more,” Gigot told The Post in a statement.\n\n“The question for us is whether what we publish from contributors reflects an author’s original argument, and if the author has the standing and credibility to make it,” he added.\n\n“In Stan Druckenmiller’s case, we have had a relationship with him for many years, and nobody can doubt that his op-ed is his genuine opinion.”\n\nThe Wall Street Journal did not immediately respond to The Post’s inquiry about whether it was aware that Druckenmiller had used AI to write the piece before it was published.\n\nOn its website, the Journal says it [uses AI tools for several purposes](https://www.wsj.com/news/author/wsj-artificialintelligencetools), including translation and research, and that “Work that includes AI inputs is reviewed by a journalist before publishing.”\n\nDruckenmiller used the same argument as the broadsheet, shrugging off his use of AI since the argument made in the opinion piece was his own.\n\n“I don’t know why this is relevant,” he said. “My name is on the piece. It’s my message.”\n\nDruckenmiller denied that “the whole thing” was written with AI and said he rejected several of the bot’s suggestions while working on the piece.\n\nIn his op-ed, Druckenmiller tore into Bessent’s plan to “at least double” government buybacks – potentially passing the $4 billion mark – in an effort to ease soaring Treasury yields and lower borrowing costs for consumers.\n\nHis article, titled “Let the Bond Speak,” argued the Treasury Department should “do the only thing that durably lowers long-term yields: address the primary deficit. Reform entitlements gradually and honestly, through means testing, indexing changes, eligibility adjustments phased in over decades – so that the burden is shared across generations instead of dumped on the youngest.”\n\nAs other news outlets noted, Druckenmiller’s op-ed included some phrases that bore similarities to telltale signs of chatbot usage, such as sentences with the pattern, “It’s not this, it’s that.”\n\nLines in the article included: “This wasn’t liquidity management, it was price management;” “not a malfunction but the machine doing its job;” and “The bond market wasn’t being a vigilante, as some would argue. It was being a pushover.”\n\nThe Journal’s parent company, News Corp, also owns The Post.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/billionaire-investor-stanley-druckenmiller-admits-he-used-ai-to-write-wsj-op-ed", "canonical_source": "https://nypost.com/2026/08/25/media/stanley-druckenmiller-admits-he-used-ai-to-write-wsj-op-ed-bashing-bessent/", "published_at": "2026-08-25 20:20:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 20:44:56.000337+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Stanley Druckenmiller", "Duquesne Capital", "Scott Bessent", "Wall Street Journal", "Paul Gigot", "NOTUS", "Pangram"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/billionaire-investor-stanley-druckenmiller-admits-he-used-ai-to-write-wsj-op-ed", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/billionaire-investor-stanley-druckenmiller-admits-he-used-ai-to-write-wsj-op-ed.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/billionaire-investor-stanley-druckenmiller-admits-he-used-ai-to-write-wsj-op-ed.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/billionaire-investor-stanley-druckenmiller-admits-he-used-ai-to-write-wsj-op-ed.jsonld"}}