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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…
Blogs.com, run by Typepad, runs "top ten blog" lists, and they asked me to do one for philosophy (and to include this blog). Here it is. Obviously there are more than ten philosophy blogs worth recommending, but ten was my limit. (Dave Chalmers maintains a huge list of philosophy-related blogs.) If some readers don't know any of these ten, maybe they'll find the list helpful.
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