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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,…
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…
Back in 2005, with reader discussion. I'll open comments here in case any readers want to comment on changes in the interim.
I've always found the stories of graduate faculty routinely not reading seminar papers quite remarkable. (I understand that even the best of us occasionally forget things and need pestering).
A modest proposal: departments require from seminar instructors written documentation that their paper marking is complete, and do not assign seminars to those instructors with outstanding documentation.
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