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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…
A worrying account. Feel free to post more information, links etc. in the comments.
(Thanks to Cesar Palacios Gonzalez for the pointer.)
This one cuts close to home: I was a postdoc in Hull in the 80s, in a department (Maths) that eliminated the degree in 2005 (https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/feb/12/highereducation.education), part of a UK trend during that period of cutting STEM programs. I believe that the department now offers degrees again, but that is only possible if a viable core of the faculty remains.
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