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UC Berkeley professor admits to using AIto edit op-ed on students’ math skills

Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to ‘help edit’ an article about some of her students being ‘five to eight years’ behind

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Sophie Sullivan20 Aug 2026, 12:35 amUpdated 4d ago1 min readTechGlobal
UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students’ math skills

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Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to ‘help edit’ an article about some of her students being ‘five to eight years’ behind

A math professor at the University of California , Berkeley, criticizing a “severe” math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard , admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece.

The Standard published a 2,000-word piece by Zvezdelina Stankova last week, in which the professor said some of her math students were “five to eight years” behind and lacked a “middle school” education on fractions and basic algebra. Stankova said the UC system’s test-blind admissions were to blame, suggesting that students who weren’t sufficiently prepared for the rigor of Berkeley’s mathematics program were admitted because a longstanding benchmark like the SAT had disappeared.

A math professor at the University of California , Berkeley, criticizing a “severe” math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard , admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece.

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Source: The Guardian · Sophie Sullivan. Published 20 Aug 2026, 12:35 am.

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