Druckenmiller says his WSJ op-ed on Bessent was AI-written

Stanley Druckenmiller told Notus that he wrote his Wall Street Journal opinion piece attacking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent using artificial intelligence, and he does not see the problem. "I write everything using AI now for the same reason I use a calculator when I do math problems," said the billionaire investor, whose column, titled "Let the Bond Market Speak," criticized Bessent's efforts to "hold down yields on U.S. treasuries."

The AI use came to light after economist Claudia Sahm posted a test on social media from a detection tool called Pangram, which flagged "100 percent of this text is AI." Druckenmiller disputed that reading, saying he had rejected many of the tool's suggestions during revision. Asked by Notus reporter Jeff Stein why any of it was worth discussing, he replied: "I don't know why this is relevant. My name is on the piece. It's my message." He added he was "not embarrassed by it."

WSJ editorial page editor Paul Gigot defended publishing the column without a disclosure. "AI is a fact of modern life," Gigot said. "The question for us is whether what we publish reflects an author's original argument."

The episode landed the same week the Financial Times appended a note to a tariffs column by Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann: "It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer draft of this column prior to submission to the FT." Two Who's Who experts we track had shared the Notus piece by the same afternoon.