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  2. Mark Robert Taylor's avatar

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

  3. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  4. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

  5. Charles Pigden's avatar

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

  6. Mark's avatar

    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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Free speech, good and bad

Sean Illing, the philosophically-minded journalist at Vox, kindly interviewed me about this article.  One thing we didn't get to talk about is my view that the academy is, when functioning properly, one of the only places where the Millian background conditions for free speech to be truth-maximizing actually obtains.  (Mr. Illing does a lot of interesting interviews, you can check them all out here.)

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