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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…
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…
My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…
I’m also at a British university (in a law school) and my sentiments largely align with the author’s. I see…
If one is genuinely uninterested in engaging with non-human interlocutors, it is unclear why one continues to do so—especially while…
MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY–UPDATED AND DOB CORRECTED
A leading scholar of early modern philosophy (especially Descartes), Professor Alanen was emerita at Uppsala University. She also did work in feminist philosophy. I will add links to memorial notices as they appear.
(Thanks to Dan Kaufman [Colorado] for alerting me to her passing.)
UPDATE: The Uppsala memorial notice. (Thanks to Sebastian Luz and Pauliina Remes for the pointer.)
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