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Berkeley Law AI policy resource

Artificial Intelligence Policy

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Abeba Birhane Woodrow Hartzog Aram Sinnreich Jane Rosenzweig Sarah Glassmeyer
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing policy & governance.
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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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Established AI research Resource 18d ago
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IN THE WEIGHTS

12 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Sasha Costanza-Chock Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich +4
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
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“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

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“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

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austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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4 experts · 13 posts · 11d ago
Ted Underwood Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Matthew L. Jones
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Ted Underwood: As promised, stealing this idea. Will the fact that the essay is about cyborgs make the whole thing more awkward? Less so? Idk.
Ted Underwood: I think I will recommend that students use feedback not to “polish” or “correct” their first draft but to add dialectical tension and conflicting perspectives.
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