News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.
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…
I'm told the department will be making an announcement today regarding the issues noted in this earlier post. Already, philosopher Trenty Dougherty is no longer listed on the department's faculty page. I will add a link to Baylor's public statement later today.
UPDATE: The Baylor announcement.
ANOTHER: Thanks to readers who sent along Professor Dougherty's "alternative" account of what transpired. It was obviously self-serving and fictional, so I decided it was best to ignore it.
Leave a Reply