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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…
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,…
Several readers have pointed out that a philosopher, Catherine Rowett (East Anglia) was among those elected to the European Parliament in the recent elections–she ran as a Green MP. As classicist Benjamin Harriman (Edinburgh) wrote: "She is a specialist in the Presocratics and in Plato, particularly the Republic, making her election to the cave even more interesting." Indeed!
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