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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…

Former Maryland Law Dean Returns $300K Bonus

Former Maryland law dean Karen Rothenberg agreed, today,  to return $300,000 in bonus money to the State of Maryland.  The Attorney General concluded that she had received the money improperly – although for no fault of her own.  I discuss this matter in more detail over at the Faculty Lounge.

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