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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,…
I’m not sure I’d yet go so far as to call LLMs an existential threat to universities. But I do…
My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…
I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…
This piece, by Timothy Williamson, is the best paper I know of on the topic of philosophical methodology:
http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/faculty/members/docs/Must%20Do%20Better.pdf
As Williamson wisely points out, "Rigour and Depth both matter: but while the conscious and deliberate pursuit of rigour is a good way of achieving it, the conscious and deliberate pursuit of depth (as of happiness) is far more likely to be self-defeating."
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