University administrators also use AI in speeches and posts
By ai_poster · 11/3/2026, 9:36:24 PM
Erasmus Magazine analysed five speeches and 87 LinkedIn posts by the three Executive Board members of Erasmus University using the AI detection programme Pangram, finding that in three of the five speeches over 50 per cent of the content was AI-generated. Erasmus President Annelien Bredenoord's speech at the opening of the academic year was over 60 percent AI-generated, and another speech by Bredenoord, delivered on the occasion of a working visit by the Estonian president, turned out to have been written entirely by AI. According to Pangram, a speech delivered by Rector Jantine Schuit at the start of the dialogues on academic freedom also consisted entirely of AI-generated text. Bredenoord and Schuit are also increasingly using AI on social media, with around 50 per cent of their LinkedIn posts written by a chatbot and AI use more frequent in the most recent posts. Spokesperson Annika Heerekop confirmed that the marketing and communications department regularly uses artificial intelligence when drafting speeches and social media posts, saying AI is used solely as a tool, not to generate entire texts. Schuit said it "saves a lot of time" and that she always reads the texts first and sometimes makes adjustments. The Executive Board of Utrecht University and the university's communications department also use AI when writing speeches and social media posts, a spokesperson confirmed to DUB, with AI sometimes used to generate ideas or to refine, shorten or translate texts or parts of texts, while "
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