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At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…
I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…
Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…
I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…
Hear hear
I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…
More details here. Imagine: the Texas State Board of Education rebuffed the pseudo-science, but Ohio, so far, hasn’t. Scary.
(Thanks to Larry Garvin [Ohio State, Law] for the pointer.)
UPDATE: More on the Ohio situation from biologist Pharyngula here. And don’t miss his hilarious comment on the latest bit of slimy dishonesty from the Discovery [sic] Institute here.
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