{"id":2651897,"date":"2026-08-30T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turns-out-ai-wrote-billionaires-widely-cited-anti-scott-bessent-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:52:54","slug":"turns-out-ai-wrote-billionaires-widely-cited-anti-scott-bessent-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/turns-out-ai-wrote-billionaires-widely-cited-anti-scott-bessent-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns Out AI Wrote Billionaire&#8217;s Widely-Cited Anti-Scott Bessent Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fturns-out-ai-wrote-billionaires-widely-cited-anti-scott-bessent-op-ed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2651897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller used artificial intelligence to assist in writing his Wall Street Journal opinion piece criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Druckenmiller confirmed he uses AI for writing, comparing it to a calculator, though he emphasized he still controls the content and message. His article argued that the U.S. Treasury&#8217;s bond buyback programs, intended to improve liquidity, were actually attempts to manage bond prices artificially, which could ultimately fail. The Treasury defended these actions as necessary for debt management, with Bessent indicating plans to expand buybacks. Additionally, an AI-detection tool identified portions of the column as AI-generated, though Druckenmiller dismissed the relevance of AI&#8217;s role in his writing, stating that the final message is his own.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller used artificial intelligence to write his widely circulated Wall Street Journal opinion piece criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, NOTUS reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Druckenmiller acknowledged to <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.notus.org\/media\/stanley-druckenmillers-wsj-op-ed-bessent-ai\">NOTUS<\/a> that he used AI to help write his \u201cLet the Bond Market Speak\u201d column, which made the rounds across the financial press overnight and on Tuesday after he criticized Bessent\u2019s efforts to intervene in the U.S. bond market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cI write everything using AI now,\u201d Druckenmiller said, comparing the technology to using a calculator for mathematics.<\/p>\n<div>Druckenmiller pushed back on the suggestion that AI wrote the entire piece, saying he rejected many of the tool\u2019s suggestions during the writing process. An AI-detection tool called Pangram identified the column as containing AI-generated writing, according to NOTUS.<\/div>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\"><a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Druckenmiller<\/a> said he did not see the use of AI as relevant to the substance of his argument.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know why this is relevant,\u201d Druckenmiller said. \u201cMy name is on the piece. It\u2019s my message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Druckenmiller, the billionaire founder of Duquesne Capital, worked with Bessent under billionaire investor George Soros and has been described as a mentor to the Treasury secretary. His criticism centered on the Treasury\u2019s decision to double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks to at least $4 billion per operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Druckenmiller argued the Treasury was attempting to manage bond prices rather than simply improving market liquidity, warning that government efforts to defend asset prices against underlying fundamentals would ultimately fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cThe bond market wasn\u2019t being a vigilante, as some would argue,\u201d Druckenmiller wrote using AI in the <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/let-the-bond-market-speak-81529d74?st=d33b56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WSJ op-ed<\/a>. \u201cIt was being a pushover that had finally begun to clear its throat, and Treasury moved to quiet even that.\u201d \u201cYield management always begins as a technical operation and ends as a policy commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The Treasury Department defended the buybacks as a way to improve liquidity and manage the government\u2019s debt portfolio, while Bessent indicated the operations could potentially expand beyond the initially announced $4 billion size.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. 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