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Graduate admissions in the age of AI, redux

Brian Leiter

Last January, we had a thread about how to protect the integrity of philosophy graduate admissions given the possibility that applicants might be using LLMs to generate some or all of their writing samples. I thought it would be useful to have a follow-up thread to see what worked and what didn’t. For those new to the discussion, please take a look at the comments on the prior thread–especially this one and this one from faculty involved in admissions.

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2 responses to “Graduate admissions in the age of AI, redux”

  1. Anon faculty

    We did select interviews for a few candidates (lower top 50 PGR program), and while it was time-consuming, we were able to rule out a couple of candidates whose writing samples were strong. In one case, we suspected AI may have been used, in the others, it was just the interviews were so weak as to raise questions about the ability of the applicnat to ultimately be successful in teaching.

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  2. A combination

    I’m curious about a select pool of graduate applicants guest lecturing with their writing sample as the assigned reading for a class or seminar—together with, or in lieu of, an interview. If substituting an actual lecture isn’t desirable, perhaps something like a job talk. The audience, apart from the search committee, would be sort of a third party, and might help stress test a variety of aspects of the writing sample.

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