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Generative AI has the potential to do catastrophic harm to higher education. This is because learning is a biological process…
When the problem of AI-based papers started a few years ago, I immediately switched to in-class essay exams and told…
[…] Brian Leiter has posted on the question: “The answer is still `emphatically’ yes. Lawprof Sloan Speck reviews some recent research…
I completely agree with both Professor Sagar’s diagnosis and treatment. Students who abuse LLMs in order to merely obtain grades…
In terms of pedagogy, I agree with Professor Sagar. In philosophy courses, at least, the exercise is the point; I…
The central claim is that LLMs (or AI more generally, I suppose) is an existential threat to universities. This gets…
I’m not at a university, so I don’t have a ton to contribute, but I want to subscribe to see…
…and then there's criminal misconduct, which appears to be what this CUNY PhD student is facing. (NYT account here.)
(Thanks to Stephen Krogh and Gregory Mayer for the pointers.)
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