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I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…
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…
David Meyer, who is currently serving as associate dean of academic affairs at the University of Illinois, will be taking over as dean at Tulane Law School this July. Meyer, a family law scholar, joined the Illinois faculty in 1996. He was previously the EIC of the Michigan Law Review and clerked for Byron White. His wife, Amy Gajda, will become an associate professor at Tulane Law.
— Dan Filler (cross-posted at The Faculty Lounge)
Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…