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Established Culture, work & education Development 12d ago
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university institutes AI classroom ban

Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall

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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Ted Underwood, Mar Hicks
“I use AI more or less 24/7 but also teach intro courses device-free and would have no prob with a flexible policy like this. (It leaves room for assignments that explicitly invite AI use, of which I do have one even at intro level.) +” evidence ↗
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“I use AI more or less 24/7 but also teach intro courses device-free and would have no prob with a flexible policy like this. (It leaves room for assignments that explicitly invite AI use, of which I do have one even at intro level.) +”

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“"Under the new guidelines, students will primarily read texts on paper and engage with them via device-free guided discussions" chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...”

Developing Policy & governance Resource 1d ago
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Berkeley Law AI policy resource

Artificial Intelligence Policy

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Woodrow Hartzog, Jane Rosenzweig
“UC Berkeley Law's new AI policy seems close to this. "This policy...[forbids the use of AI] to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work...for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work [and] in any exam situation." www.law.berkeley…” evidence ↗
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“UC Berkeley Law's new AI policy seems close to this. "This policy...[forbids the use of AI] to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work...for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work [and] in any exam situation." www.law.berkeley…”

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Jane Rosenzweig: Every time I read a university leader saying that trying to create spaces where AI is not used is a way of pretending it doesn't exist, I wonder what benefit there is to drawing this false line. Wh…
Jane Rosenzweig: If one of my students wrote this piece, I would ask for evidence that the places named--Chicago and Berkeley--are pretending AI doesn't exist or trying to make it go away. This is the Berkeley poli…
Jane Rosenzweig: Would be great to stop having this debate and instead really dig into what should go in the curriculum, with or without AI, so that we can meet this moment in a way other than trying to hang on to …
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3 experts · 15 posts · 8d ago
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“Or include one of those "your application must include the word banana" instructions in small white text, and filter out those that do. Or add an image in the ad that includes instructions only hum…” evidence ↗
Abeba Birhane: i need to recruit for some roles and put out ads at some stage, but the process of recruiting has become so overwhelming as i know we’ll receive 100s of llm generated applications *sigh*
Jeni Tennison: It's so broken. One suggestion I heard was to respond to applications with a short relevant exercise. The idea is that those applying in automated ways to jobs they don't care about will fail to re…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 18d ago
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“Perhaps you should write a model policy?” evidence ↗
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Abeba Birhane: been reading university/higher-ed policies on the use of genAI in education. most policies propose using genAI safely, ethically, & responsibly, which is an oxymoron. the way current genAI is devel…
Abeba Birhane: imo, you have to choose between using genAI OR cultivating fundamental educational values. you simply can’t have both 🤷🏾‍♀️
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