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    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

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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…

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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…

  4. Charles Pigden's avatar

    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

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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…

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    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

The increasingly strange Democratic field

On the one hand, we have candidates with actual, substantive positions that make clear they are not Republicans and not neoliberal Democrats–most clearly, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren–and then we have candidates who are selling their personality and life story and "feel good" blather, and not substantive agendas:  Senators Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Kristin Gillibrand, and now Amy Klubochar.  I sure hope the substance wins, and the personalities go back to their mirrors.

UPDATE:  This is apt, from political theorist Corey Robin (Brooklyn College).  (Thanks to Dean Rowan for the pointer.)

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