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  1. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  2. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

  3. Charles Pigden's avatar

    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

  4. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

  5. A in the UK's avatar
  6. Jonathan Turner's avatar

    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

  7. Craig Duncan's avatar

Instead of tracking down terrorists…

…government agents are pursuing law students. First at Drake, now at Texas. Interestingly, the Texas conference on Islam and sexism that attracted the eagle eye of U.S. Army Intelligence arose from a debate last summer on the listserve for the Texas student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild when I opined that all the major religions are at their core sexist, which generated a vigorous debate. The conference, organized by UT law student Sahar Aziz (a participant in the listserve debate) brought distinguished scholars to Austin to discuss the status of women within Islam. For unknown reasons, it also brought U.S. Army Intelligence. At least no subpoenas have been issued…yet.

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