James Grimmelmann

I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ

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The chef’s kiss in this essay about how ambition is destroying education at Stanford is the note at the end, where we learn that the author, a Stanford senior, has a forthcoming book on the subject. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

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  • ChatGPT's 2022 debut triggered cascading honor code violations and policy reversals that persisted across all four years of one college cohort.
  • Faculty policy swung between banning and requiring AI tools within single academic years, leaving students unable to follow consistent rules.
  • A documented social rift formed within the Class of 2026 between students who adopted AI tools and those who refused throughout their degree.
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Bad content drives out good. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...

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The companion paper contains a version of the (dis)proof in the level of detail expected by the mathematical community, and some of the mathematicians whose comments are included there have the expertise to vouch for its correctness. cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085...

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This is the best thing I've read on baseball's new ABS system. Balls and strikes are made, not found. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.16237

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Bad content drives out good? futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Maybe it was the accountability, or maybe they had other problems, but another AI company that was trading on people's identities without consent just went bankrupt. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2026/05/28/a...

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It was fun talking about generative AI and legal interpretation tonight at Pint of Science. Here are my slides: james.grimmelmann.net/talks/2026-0...

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