How Generative AI can Harm Higher Education, with Special Emphasis on Legal Education
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Scott Fruehwald
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Scott Fruehwald
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Retired legal educator.
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@drianpace I think Steven Pinker's, The Blank Slate is one of the two most important books of the present century.
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One of the key aspects of gender-critical ideology is the reassertion of biology, beyond the tradition of denial from de Beauvoir to Butler. More widely, nature needs to be reclaimed from blank statists and social constructivists. Civilisation is not the denial of human’s nature.
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LLMs cannot learn.
The frozen core never updates from experience.
So the AI industry piles on prompts, RAG, memory, agents, and orchestration to preserve the illusion of learning.
That illusion shatters when reality changes.
Yet they think enterprise adoption is a PR problem.
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I have zero respect for any AI advocate who does not address the serious environmental issues involved. We cannot continue to ignore what we are doing to the actual physical world we live in.
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'Decolonisation' is a colonial philosophy.
Created by Western academics.
In Western universities.
Trying to find a way to destroy capitalist democracies after their communist experiment failed.
They decided to manipulate Indigenous people.
Appropriate them through the lie of 'victimhood'.
To gain public money and political power.
To 'decolonise' aka 'collapse' Western Civilisation.
And replace it with communism where everyone gets to be a slave - including Indigenous people.
Decolonisation is communist code for 'collective slavery'.
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I think @Princeton
should seriously consider adopting the recommendations in the Yale report, which include:
• Expand financial aid and make pricing more transparent and predictable for families
• Reform admissions by prioritizing academic achievement, reducing legacy/athlete/donor preferences, and establishing a minimum academic threshold
• Address grade inflation — Yale's median grade is now an A — through grade normalization and transcript percentiles. (Harvard and Yale are moving so we wouldn't be going alone this time.)
• Combat self-censorship in classrooms, with joint faculty-student classroom principles
• Pursue intellectual pluralism through departmental self-studies and investment in underrepresented scholarly traditions
• Implement a device-free classroom default to restore focused learning
• Create a shared civic education curriculum for first-year undergraduates
• Streamline administrative bureaucracy with a transparent, faculty-involved review
• Strengthen faculty governance, including faculty liaisons to the Board of Trustees
• Communicate more openly and listen more broadly to public concerns
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@effthealgorithm What hall this this? I've lived in NYC,
and it wasn't close to this.
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Sometimes I think it’s not the music or the writing or the topic that’s made symphonies, operas, plays, theater, and ballet irrelevant to most people’s lives…it’s the $178 per person matinee ticket price for a middle seat at the back of the mezzanine level.
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@TracyClark132 The first chapter because it lays out the problem of gen AI and higher education.
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@ScottFruehwald Love this cover, it fits the story’s mood perfectly.
What part of the book was the most fun (or hardest) for you to write?
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What’s your favorite song by Crosby Stills & Nash?
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@JVMonte2 Ohio. Neil Young with C, S, & N. About Kent State. 1970.
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Berklee College of Music students are petitioning for the school’s ‘AI music in songwriting’ class to be dropped.
“AI models like Chat GPT that are being promoted by the Berklee Songwriting Department steal the art of 10's of 1000's of artists and rot the essence of the industry and have devastating consequences on the environment all to create facsimiles of real human art. There is no place for generative AI at art school- we call to disband ‘Bots, Beats and Bytes’ and any other promotion of generative AI at Berklee.”
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Can someone recommend a movie that will emotionally destroy me?
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Statistical approximation is not the same thing as general intelligence. osf.io/preprints/psya… via @ValerioCapraro et al
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This is the single best framework I’ve seen for understanding AI.
Terence Tao, arguably the smartest mathematician alive, just dropped a paper with Tanya Klowden on arXiv called “Mathematical Methods and Human Thought in the Age of AI.”
The core idea: a “Copernican View of Intelligence.”
Stop thinking of AI on a line from “dumb” to “superhuman.”
That’s the wrong axis entirely.
AI excels at BREADTH. Humans excel at DEPTH.
Tao himself said AI has made his papers “richer and broader, but not necessarily deeper.”
That’s not a limitation. That’s the entire playbook.
Stop trying to replace yourself with AI. Start using it to cover the 90% of surface area your brain physically can’t.
The people who get this are already 10x more productive.
The rest are still arguing about whether AI is “smart enough.”
Reframe your point of view from “smarter” to “different”.
Human + AI > either alone.
The math on that has never been clearer.
Michał Podlewski@trajektoriePL
Terence Tao proposes what he calls a "Copernican view of intelligence". Instead of buying into the common, one-dimensional narrative that artificial intelligence will simply evolve from "subhuman" to "superhuman" and ultimately make humanity entirely redundant, Tao urges us to look at the bigger picture. Much like the Copernican revolution proved the Earth is not the center of the universe, Tao suggests we need to realize that human intelligence isn't the only, or necessarily the highest, form of intellect. Historically, we have treated other forms of storing or creating knowledge—like animals, books, and computers—as secondary. However, we actually exist within a much richer universe of intelligence. Both human intelligence and computer intelligence possess their own distinct strengths and weaknesses. The true potential lies not in viewing them as direct competitors, but rather in focusing on collaboration. By working together, humans and computers can achieve additional things that neither could accomplish on their own, requiring us to think in much wider terms than just what humans or computers can do alone.
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This is an excellent point from Miranda
Miranda France@MirandaFrance1
One of the reasons I feel sad about students using AI is that they miss out on the experience of writing something mediocre and then improving it through successive drafts. You learn so much about language and argument in that process, and feel such a sense of accomplishment.
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> Your boss asks you to lead a project
> You need a legal agreement
> You open your LLM of choice
> “Draft me an agreement.”
> “Make it airtight.”
> “Add a custom provision for this weird edge case.”
> LLM delivers a 25-page, hyper-protective agreement
> You don’t fully understand all of it, but it sounds right
> You send it
> Counterparty opens their LLM
> “Find every issue.”
> “Rewrite this in our favor.”
> “Also add protections so we don’t get burned.”
> You get back a 35-page redline
> Half the comments contradict yours
> Some provisions now interact in ways you don’t understand
> Your boss asks:
“Are we covered here?”
> You pause
Because now the real question isn’t:
“Can an LLM draft an agreement?”
It’s:
“Do I actually understand the risk I’m signing up for?”
And:
“If this goes sideways… who owns that decision?”
What’s your next move?
Do you get it now??
Aaron Levie@levie
We will likely have more lawyers in the future than today, because: 1) AI will cause so many more people to ask legal questions which will encourage them to need to verify or execute through an actual lawyer. 2) AI will cause an explosion of more and more exotic legal terms that lawyers will be spending even more time reviewing redlines or new cases around. 3) All the new areas of law that now are emerging around the use of AI itself in every single industry. AI introduces an explosion of IP, privacy, and regulatory compliance challenges across all verticals. This has historical precedent as well. Between the creation of the PC and the internet (both technologies that made the legal profession far more efficient), the ABA pegs active attorneys having gone from roughly 400,000 in 1975 to roughly 1,375,000 in 2025. When we make professions more efficient and automated, often demand for them goes up not down.
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It is not complete
Big gaps in docket coverage
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When it works it’s great
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