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If anything, this exchange illustrates the problem: judgments are being made on stylistic impressions (“this sounds like AI”) rather than…
The existential threat is not to higher-ed as such but a particular (and now common) higher-ed business model: the one…
I think Paul is absolutely right. For the humanities it is an existential crisis, not just some minor issue that…
Is the joke here that your comment is very obviously written by AI?
Sagar’s claim that LLMs pose an “existential threat” to universities rests on a set of conflations that do not survive…
Generative AI has the potential to do catastrophic harm to higher education. This is because learning is a biological process…
When the problem of AI-based papers started a few years ago, I immediately switched to in-class essay exams and told…
Rachana Kamtekar (ancient philosophy, ethics), currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has accepted a tenure-track position in philosophy at the University of Arizona.
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