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I saw this one online:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...271280.php

Berkeley Law School bans AI use because of plagiarism.

In a policy announced Thursday, and effective this summer, the law school will prohibit its 1,120 students from using artificial intelligence in preparing class assignments and in all exams — except for courses designed to teach students how to use AI, ethically and legally, while practicing law. Those courses are generally for students who are nearing graduation.

Exceptions will also be made for teachers who want to give their students more leeway in using the technology. But it will generally be barred for end-of-term exams.

Students will also be prohibited, the university announced, from using AI devices “for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit.”

This strikes me as very short-sighted.  There is no stuffing the genie back into the bottle, so instead of prohibiting it (after all, I presume practicing lawyers are using AI, though sometimes getting into trouble through its mis-use), you might as well incorporate it into law school.  That would require changing the way you teach, and possibly how you evaluate students.  And if there is an issue with plagiarism or hallucinations coming from the AI, then the school has to teach students how to spot it, or check for it.

At my current job, we don’t get told not to use AI (though we do have lists of approved and prohibited tools); rather we have had mandatory everydayAI training courses designed to help people incorporate AI into their workflows, and figure out how to use it, how to check it, and (also critically) when not to use it.  I suspect my company is not unique.  That’s going to be the future of new grads coming into the workforce, and as much ink as has been spilled on how AI will do away with entry level jobs, I actually think it is the opposite; new grads coming into the workforce will be the first AI “native” generation, so they will be able to incorporate AI into their workflows seamlessly, and much more effectively than fuddy duddies like me.


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[BostonCard]

I saw this one online:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...271280.php

Berkeley Law School bans AI use because of plagiarism.

In a policy announced Thursday, and effective this summer, the law school will prohibit its 1,120 students from using artificial intelligence in preparing class assignments and in all exams — except for courses designed to teach students how to use AI, ethically and legally, while practicing law. Those courses are generally for students who are nearing graduation.

Exceptions will also be made for teachers who want to give their students more leeway in using the technology. But it will generally be barred for end-of-term exams.

Students will also be prohibited, the university announced, from using AI devices “for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit.”

This strikes me as very short-sighted.  There is no stuffing the genie back into the bottle, so instead of prohibiting it (after all, I presume practicing lawyers are using AI, though sometimes getting into trouble through its mis-use), you might as well incorporate it into law school.  That would require changing the way you teach, and possibly how you evaluate students.  And if there is an issue with plagiarism or hallucinations coming from the AI, then the school has to teach students how to spot it, or check for it.

At my current job, we don’t get told not to use AI (though we do have lists of approved and prohibited tools); rather we have had mandatory everydayAI training courses designed to help people incorporate AI into their workflows, and figure out how to use it, how to check it, and (also critically) when not to use it.  I suspect my company is not unique.  That’s going to be the future of new grads coming into the workforce, and as much ink as has been spilled on how AI will do away with entry level jobs, I actually think it is the opposite; new grads coming into the workforce will be the first AI “native” generation, so they will be able to incorporate AI into their workflows seamlessly, and much more effectively than fuddy duddies like me.


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