Harvard professor caught using AI to condense Financial Times op-ed trashing Trump tariffs

Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann is facing backlash over the use of AI to condense a opinion piece he wrote for the FT, according to an editors note written at the top.

Europa Press News / A. Perez Meca, Getty Images The Financial Times called out Harvard economics professor Ricardo Hausmann for using artificial intelligence in his op-ed criticizing President Donald Trump and his tariffs. The British daily newspaper posted a disclaimer at the top of the opinion piece: “It has come to

August 16, 2026 7:30 PM ET A star economist at Harvard is taking heavy criticism over accusations that artificial intelligence did most of the work on his anti-Trump column.Ricardo Hausmann wrote the opinion piece attacking President Donald Trump’s tariffs for the Financial Times, which ran it Thursday. He is the Rafik

AI detector Pangram showed that the 841-word piece was 71% AI-generated.