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Steve Mollman

Bill Ackman suggests AI-powered plagiarism checks will cause ‘incredible embarrassment’ in academia

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Bill Ackman has been roiling university elites for the past few months. This weekend, he took it up a notch—and tossed artificial intelligence into the mix. 

In a lengthy post on X on Sunday, the billionaire investor expounded on the power of AI tools to quickly accomplish what humans would find too laborious: sift through decades of academic papers to reveal examples of plagiarism.

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