The prospect of AI-generated student work that is, in turn, evaluated by AI is a dystopian prospect and represents an existential threat to the sector. Universities should have the courage to recognise this and design AI policies accordingly, however unfashionable that seems. 3/3
That AI isn't yet "good enough" to mark students' essays ought to be beside the point. Outsourcing such tasks to AI is fundamentally incompatible with the intellectual engagement between student and professor that should be central to higher education. /1
https://t.co/odMAjR88Qw
Academic writing isn't about producing "content". It's about thinking: grappling with ideas, refining arguments. Students should be encouraged to do that now more than ever. They are entitled, in return, to genuine intellectual encounter with a professor who marks their work. /2
🚨Could the Parliament Acts be used to pass assisted dying?
As I say in this clip:
🔵 Never previously used on a PMB
🔵 But explicitly intended to apply to PMBs, not just govt bills
🔵 In practice, not straightforward to do, but possible
Well it’s not everyday you receive a letter from 10 Downing Street. I’m most grateful to @middletemple for forwarding this on to me. What a great end to the week. Thank you very much for the endorsement. @Keir_Starmer@10DowningStreet
This is very interesting: a post-plagiarism conception of AI misuse that also prohibits its use for "conceptualising" and "outlining". The guiding principle – that "*thinking* remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)" – is surely right.
@drdeanknight Exactly. The old practices, already isolated examples 60 years ago, are artefacts of an era when attachment to now-dominant norms was less strong. But the increasingly predominant nature of commitment to relevant norms in the intervening decades confines the old egs to history.
Interesting piece on whether PM must be an MP, partly responding to my analysis (https://t.co/GwYeZocHsS). Key Q is whether precedent from 1960s remains persuasive. I doubt it, given 60+ years of now consistent practice. Convention flexes as practice & political mores develop.
We gave a family of ducks the VIP treatment through Main Court yesterday. Each spring ducklings hatch across Cambridge & porters guide them towards the river – a tradition that we would never want to duck out of!
Music: Fluffing a Duck" Kevin MacLeod (https://t.co/vgmufFUUQ7)