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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…
If that's you, then do read this (and even if you do know the great Paul Robeson, you'll still enjoy the essay). And here he is singing for the workers building the Sydney Opera House:
And here's Robeson's brilliant testimony before the fascists on the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956.
UPDATE: Philosopher Robin Jeshion (USC) points out to me that the latter is actually the actor James Earl Jones portraying Robeson. A great performance!
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