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Sagar’s claim that LLMs pose an “existential threat” to universities rests on a set of conflations that do not survive…
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…
That means, of course, that they are not free (see my remarks here). Indeed, most of those with money to spare aren't free either. The epidemic of unfreedom in America will no doubt get worse in the years ahead.
(More signs of unfreedom and economic distress.)
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