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  1. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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  3. Jonathan Turner's avatar

    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

  6. A in the UK's avatar

    I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…

  7. André Hampshire's avatar

    If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…

Two Philosophers Elected to British Academy

They are Terence Irwin (Oxford University) and Shalom Lappin (King's College, London).  Lappin, it will be recalled, had his job threatened at KCL, before the international outcry led the administration, wisely, to reconsider its plans.  But think about it:  administrators, without tenure as an obstacle of course (!), were going to fire a researcher whose work has now led to his election to the British Academy.   It would be hard to concoct a credible story about judgment this bad.

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