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At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…
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,…
WWWtW is always there to help.
ADDENDUM: An amusing sidenote: Ed Feser (whom longtime readers may recall as an apologist for both anti-gay bigotry and the killing of doctors who perform abortions) used to be a regular at WWWtW, but disappeared from the roster and the blog some time after one of the especially grotestque explosions of anti-Muslim bigotry. It's good to know that even among moral miscreants there are standards!
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