Professor David Bederman of Emory Law School passed away on Sunday. He was 50. Bederman, who received his JD from Virginia and his Ph.D from the University of London, was an international law scholar. He had been at Emory since 1991.
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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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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…
I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…
Professor David Bederman of Emory Law School passed away on Sunday. He was 50. Bederman, who received his JD from Virginia and his Ph.D from the University of London, was an international law scholar. He had been at Emory since 1991.
Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…