Berkeley prof's op-ed bashing students' math flagged 33% AI by Pangram
nordicinst · x · 2026-08-20
The Guardian reports UC Berkeley math professor Zvezdelina Stankova wrote a 2,000-word op-ed claiming some students are "five to eight years" behind, blaming test-blind UC admissions for admitting underprepared students. Berkeley student journalists ran the piece through Pangram, which flagged 33% as AI-generated or assisted. Stankova admitted using AI to "help edit" and to locate documents, but insisted the article was "several hundred person-hours of intensive human work, of which about 80 hours are my own" with all analysis done by the team.
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