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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…
My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…
…in light of her apologetics for sexual harassers, notably in the Ronell case, but let's not forget an earlier incident. As Martha Nussbaum observed years ago, well before these incidents, Butler's "hip quietism…collaborates with evil." This has turned out to be true in more ways than anticipated. [NOTE: the first hyperlink is a link to the petition.]
(Thanks to Gary Dyer for the pointer to the petition.)
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