A Berkeley professor wrote about students cutting corners, but a detector flagged her op-ed
Zvezdelina Stankova published an op-ed on 15 August arguing that Berkeley admits students who cannot do middle school mathematics. Within days, the argument had been overtaken by a question about how the op-ed itself was written.
Zvezdelina Stankova, a teaching professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley, made her case in the San Francisco Standard under the headline “I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can’t do middle school math”.
The piece travelled quickly, picked up by Fox News and Townhall, and became a set-piece in the long fight over the University of California’s test-blind admissions policy.
Then Pangram, the detector Substack uses to flag machine-written posts, was pointed at it and returned a reading of roughly 33% AI-generated or AI-assisted. A post about the result by Chris Hoofnagle, a professor at Berkeley Law, drew close to three million views on X, and the story stopped being...
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