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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…
By a commenter (who else?):
ATL [says it] takes its journalistic mission seriously. ATL, please get over yourselves and realize that what you produce is nothing more than trashy entertainment for niche group of wretched people. If this site went suddenly offline forever the world would be no worse off.
(Thanks to a reader who asked to remain anonymous, but was inspired to write by our earlier item.)
I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…