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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,…
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…
Maybe people are more interested in engaging with human interlocutors than with machine ones, no matter what the argument.
Essays as coursework has never been just about engaging the argument itself. Authorship matters because it matters that the argument…
…commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre. The University's official statement effectively acknowledges that the University removed it because of the Beijing-imposed laws that criminalize dissent.
This is the latest in a series of incidents that indicate Hong Kong is being crushed by the authoritarians in Beijing.
(Thanks to Chris Fraser for the pointer.)
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