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  2. Mark Robert Taylor's avatar

    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. Charles Pigden's avatar

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

  6. 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…

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Defamation Suit Waiting to Happen

We have already established that Professor Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Law School is deeply ignorant about the First Amendment and academic freedom.  It turns out he’s also a bit shaky on defamation, which is what’s at issue when you make a series of damaging factual assertions about a colleague, intended to support the case for dismissing or disciplining him.  Unless every one of them turns out to be true (and neither Professor Campos nor anyone else knows whether they are), prudence might suggest more restraint.  (Moral integrity might recommend restraint as well, but we have already established its absence in this instance.) 

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