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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…
My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona has made two more hires with tenure: Guido Pincione (political philosophy, rational choice theory), Professor of Law at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires; and Daniel Russell (ancient philosophy, ethics), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wichita State University.
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