Ira Stoll writes for the Washington Free Beacon about an interesting development at America’s oldest university.
A stridently anti-Israel Harvard graduate student used artificial intelligence to churn out at least five of the more than 90 medical journal articles he published in two and a half years, including one about whether newborns have a future in Gaza, a Washington Free Beacon review shows.
“The ongoing Israeli military assault on Gaza has led to an alarming humanitarian catastrophe, whereby the onset of famine is coupled with a deterioration of maternal health services, severely impacting the wellbeing of pregnant women and of children. The near-total collapse of the health-care infrastructure, coupled with the lack of access to essential medical services, has resulted in a tragic surge in preventable maternal and neonatal deaths,” said the article titled “Will there be a future for newborns in Gaza?” in the November 2, 2024, issue of the Lancet, a British medical journal. …
… The lead author of the article, Bilal Irfan, published a Harvard Medical School email address for correspondence related to the article, and he listed his affiliation as “Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.” At the time the article was published, he was a graduate student at Harvard Medical School. …
… Three online screening programs—Pangram, Winston AI, and ZeroGPT—marked the article as 100 percent AI-generated. Another program, Quillbot, said 54 percent of the text of the article is AI-generated. A fifth program, GPTZero, gave the article a 73 percent likelihood of being AI-generated.
For a person in his early 20s, Irfan has an astonishingly long list of scholarly journal articles, many of them co-authored with physicians in Gaza hospitals that Israeli and American officials say and physical, photographic, and video evidence show were used for operations of Hamas terrorists. …
… Harvard Medical School now says he departed nearly a year ago, when he finished a masters program, and that he has been inappropriately using his affiliation with the school for the past year.
