P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

Writing The Declaration

May 10, 2026

Who Wrote The Declaration Of Independence

From LinkedIn, by Mark Henderson

Pop quiz: Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Thomas Jefferson in 1776 [Ed. Note: With help from Ben “LLM” Franklin and John “Better Prompts” Adams.

An AI “detector” flagged it as 97.75% AI-generated. AI detection tools are not the answer. They never were.

If your entire academic integrity strategy is “run it through a detector,” you’re building on sand. The real question isn’t did AI write this? It’s does this assignment even require original thinking? Redesign the work. Make it personal. Make it specific. Make it theirs.

No detector needed.

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