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The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
Sensible advice from Sheila Heen, a professor of practice and negotiation expert at Harvard Law School: Download Negotiation Strategy Notes for Law Firms Heen April 12 2025. Good advice for universities too!
(Thanks to Richard Bales for the pointer.)
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…