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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…
If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…
The Children
Their arms enfolded him
Their faces opened wide
They drank him with their eyes
He smothered in their trust
No no he pleaded
You must not think of love
Here see my heart’s ashes
My spirit’s moat of dust
But they did not listen
Nor falter in their thrust
Hugged instead his sorrow
And cried you must you must
6/10-6/19/98
Copyright 1998 by Maurice Leiter
Posted with permission
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