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  1. André Hampshire's avatar

    Sagar’s claim that LLMs pose an “existential threat” to universities rests on a set of conflations that do not survive…

  2. Edwin Fruehwald's avatar

    Generative AI has the potential to do catastrophic harm to higher education. This is because learning is a biological process…

  3. Anonymous1's avatar

    When the problem of AI-based papers started a few years ago, I immediately switched to in-class essay exams and told…

  4. V. Alan White's avatar
  5. Kenneth Pike's avatar

    In terms of pedagogy, I agree with Professor Sagar. In philosophy courses, at least, the exercise is the point; I…

  6. AG Tanyi's avatar

    The central claim is that LLMs (or AI more generally, I suppose) is an existential threat to universities. This gets…

A New Academic Law Blog…

…from Pittsburgh law prof Michael Madison here, with an IP/technology focus. Judging from his links, there is also reason to hope that the bizarre rightward tilt of the law blogosphere (Volokh, the San Diego folks at Right Coast, Althouse, Reynolds, Bainbridge) is not being augmented by this latest addition! (The tilt is odd given that the legal academy leans liberal [more liberal than left!], yet aside from Yale’s Balkin and Miami’s Froomkin, there is little prominent liberal legal academic blogging going on out there. And then, of course, I’m out here all by my lonesome on the left….)

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