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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,…
I’m not sure I’d yet go so far as to call LLMs an existential threat to universities. But I do…
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FRIDAY–THE RESULTS
UPDATE: The results:
| As a reader of the blog, how important to you is coverage of "philosophy in the news," e.g., links to interviews with philosophers, popular articles about philosophers or philosophical topics, and the like? | ||
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| Selection | Votes | |
| Very important, one of the main reasons I read the blog |  43% |
292 |
| Important, I like to have these links. |  45% |
309 |
| Unimportant, I read the blog for other reasons |  12% |
84 |
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| 685 total | ||
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