Stanley Druckenmiller admits to using AI for WSJ op-ed criticizing Scott Bessent

Stanley Druckenmiller, the billionaire founder of Duquesne Family Office, confirmed on Tuesday that he used artificial intelligence to help write his Wall Street Journal op-ed attacking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond-buyback strategy. His response to the revelation was roughly as apologetic as you’d expect from a man worth tens of billions of dollars: “Of course I used AI.” The op-ed, titled “Let the Bond Market Speak,” went after Bessent’s decision to expand long-dated Treasury bond buybacks, calling the policy “price management” dressed up as a liquidity tool. An AI-detection tool called Pangram flagged significant portions of the piece as machine-generated, which is how the whole confession got rolling in the first place. The substance behind the style debate Druckenmiller’s core complaint: the Treasury announced it would double long-dated bond buybacks to at least $4 billion per operation, running from September 9 through November 4, 2026. He argued this expansion was unwarranted because there is no genuine market dysfunction to justify it. In his words, the move represents “a mistake far larger than $4 billion suggests.” US national debt has now surpassed $40 trillion...