AI BriefingBerkeley's Ghostwriters: AI Writing Infiltrates Campus, Students, and Civic Communication
Key point
A UC Berkeley student newspaper investigation found that 42.1% of student resolutions in 2025-26 are suspected of being AI-generated.
Details
An investigation by UC Berkeley's student newspaper, The Daily Californian, using AI detection tools such as Pangram to analyze over 1,000 publications and more than 1 million words, revealed that AI-generated text has widely penetrated campus and city communications.
The Scope of AI Writing
AI usage was detected in nearly every genre and level of public communication examined, including obituaries, Substack posts, messages to students, recorded speeches, and news articles. This phenomenon is relatively recent, with most positive detection results coming from text published within the past year.
Key Figures and Implications
Notably, for the UC Berkeley student government (ASUC), 42.1% of resolutions passed in 2025-26 were flagged as AI-generated. This serves as an indicator of how quickly institutions and the student body are adopting AI tools in modern communication, suggesting that establishing AI policies and ensuring transparency in educational and administrative institutions has become a critical challenge.
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