Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social

Public health lawyer and researcher. Actively interested in exploring the impact of laws on health and emerging technologies... Also, beer.

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

Hi Folks, I'm happy to announce that I was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure by Texas A&M University. If you would like to hear what I am up to these days, please follow me at bluesky 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social

[PublicHealthLawRsrch @PHLR_Temple]

@CasonSchmit speaks about the new editorial in @AMJPublicHealth which calls for increased transparency in legal research through the development of a new @EQUATORNetwork standard.
Read more: https://t.co/UzPT34GoBy

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

Better policies require better reporting of policy evaluation research. See our new commentary in the American Journal of Public Health @AMJPublicHealth https://t.co/xVLHlPdHsz

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

Thrilled and excited to join the Texas A&M Institute for Healthcare Access! Let's get to work!

[Texas A&M Public Health @TAMU_SPH]

Texas A&M Health Institute for Healthcare Access annouces Faculty Fellows https://t.co/Xw6O8yb1s8
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[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

@JanProbst I really appreciate when peer reviewers do that!

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

I suspect that I just got my first AI-generated peer review for a submitted research paper. Difficult to know for sure.

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

Peer review is an important process that improves the quality of published research. I don't think AI is ready to take over that process yet.

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

My guess is that an AI-generated response was used as a starting point, and the reviewer made revisions. But, I asked an #LLM to review my paper and got some similar results.

[APHALaw @APHALaw]

Last but not least, close out your #APHA2023 experience on 11/15 in GWCC B305 at 10:30-12pm ET to hear innovative public health law ideas (5096) from @CasonSchmit, Gregory Miao & Wesley Hartman @ChangeLabWorks, Shannan Young @GeorgiaStateLaw & @sbrynaustin https://t.co/mRXFBxIEIv

[Texas A&M Public Health @TAMU_SPH]

Biden's AI executive order seeks to regulate, without stifling innovation @CasonSchmit https://t.co/cWoJQucA0d

[Genetic Literacy Project @GeneticLiteracy]

As AI evolves faster than traditional legislation can keep up with, there's a need for adaptable standards that can both encourage beneficial use & mitigate risks. The concept of copyleft licensing, emerges as a potential solution. @CasonSchmit @DNAlawyer https://t.co/M5UTyqsudj

[Cecile Tamura @ceciletamura]

Speaking with @CasonSchmit, @BobprayD, @FrankPepper12, and @alexbarnett https://t.co/uSxOy0IMpg

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

UPDATE: Just informed that it was a hoax "swatting" call...

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

Active shooter reports on the Bryan TAMU campus. #Shaken

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

Another worrying lesson from my classroom experiments w/ #AI: I had a student submit a paper that cited an AI chat bot #ChatGPT (which I allowed, if cited), but the new #AIDetection tool in #turnitin read 0%.

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

I asked my students if I should do it again for future classes. Surprisingly, they said "yes." They thought it was valuable to gain a healthy skepticism and realistic expectations for #AI generated content. A lesson for the world. #ChatGPT 7/7

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

I experimented w/ #ChatGPT in my class assignments. It was a disaster. The #AI bot straight up made things up and produced fictitious content. Despite their frustration, my students recommended that I do it again (😲🤔) for future classes to instill a healthy skepticism of AI 1/7

[Cason Schmit 🦋 @casonschmit.bsky.social @CasonSchmit]

I am a bit perplexed on how it #ChatGPT missed so hard, when these case briefs are so easy to #Google. But I am more concerned that it just made things up and presented them as facts. 6/7