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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…
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…
I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…
If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month:
The Nature of Moral Responsibility: New Essays edited by Randolph Clarke, Michael McKenna & Angela Smith (Oxford University Press, 2015).
What Philosophy Can Do by Gary Gutting (Norton, 2015).
In Defense of Plural Marriage by Ronald C. Den Otter (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age by Lee McIntyre (Routledge, 2015).
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