{"id":77637,"date":"2026-08-19T19:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/uc-berkeley-professor-admits-to-using-ai-to-edit-op-ed-about-students-math-skills\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:56:10","slug":"uc-berkeley-professor-admits-to-using-ai-to-edit-op-ed-about-students-math-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/uc-berkeley-professor-admits-to-using-ai-to-edit-op-ed-about-students-math-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed about students\u2019 math skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to \u2018help edit\u2019 an article about some of her students being \u2018five to eight years\u2019 behind<\/p>\n<p>A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a \u201csevere\u201d math deficiency among students in an <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/opinion\/2026\/08\/15\/uc-berkeley-sat-test-blind-admissions-math-scores\/\">op-ed for the San Francisco Standard<\/a>, admitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/news\/campus\/uc-berkeley-professor-admits-to-using-ai-in-op-ed-calling-out-students-lack-of\/article_be1360f7-6e2a-42f6-ae76-f05d8cee74c4.html\">using artificial intelligence<\/a> to help edit the piece.<\/p>\n<p>The Standard published a 2,000-word piece by Zvezdelina Stankova last week, in which the professor said some of her math students were \u201cfive to eight years\u201d behind and lacked a \u201cmiddle school\u201d education on fractions and basic algebra. Stankova said the UC system\u2019s test-blind admissions were to blame, suggesting that students who weren\u2019t sufficiently prepared for the rigor of Berkeley\u2019s mathematics program were admitted because a longstanding benchmark like the SAT had disappeared.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/19\/uc-berkeley-professor-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to \u2018help edit\u2019 an article about some of her students being \u2018five to eight years\u2019 behind A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a \u201csevere\u201d math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the &#8230; <a title=\"UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed about students\u2019 math skills\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/uc-berkeley-professor-admits-to-using-ai-to-edit-op-ed-about-students-math-skills\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed about students\u2019 math skills\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}