A lot of people won’t like this article, but it had to be said. AI will ruin law school. AI And Langdell Cannot Co-Exist In The Law School Classroom quoting Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette Op-Ed: Old School, Baby, by Robert…
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BBC Podcast: Is AI eroding our critical thinking?
Here is a wonderful podcast on how AI is affecting our critical thinking. [about 25 minutes] One of the experts is education scholar Daniel Willingham. Is AI eroding our critical thinking? The podcast notes that most problems are solved by…
How the Neurobiology of Learning Reveals the Dangers of Students Overusing AI
In my last post, I discussed a study that demonstrated that using AI to help write papers significantly affected student learning. In this post, I show why this is so using the neurobiology of learning–how the brain learns. Question: How…
A Terrifying Report on the Effect of AI on Learning
Scholars at MIT just published a brain scan study of ChatGPT users, with frightening results. Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task by Nataliya Kosmyna, Eugene Hauptmann, Ye Tong Yuan,…
AI Cannot Replace Human Memory
Here is an important article that shows AI is not a substitute for human memory of facts and processes: The Most Important Memory is Still the One Inside Your Head. “The very architecture of expertise is built not by exposure,…
Preparing Students for the Artificial Intelligence Era: The Crucial Role of Critical Thinking Skills by Samantha A. Moppett
Professor Moppett has written an article suggesting that law schools teach critical thinking to help students and lawyers deal with the problems of AI: Preparing Students for the Artificial Intelligence Era: The Crucial Role of Critical Thinking Skills by Samantha…
A New Parlor Is Open: Legal Writing Faculty Must Develop Scholarship on Generative AI And Legal Writing
Here is an important new article on AI and legal scholarship by Professor Kirsten Davis: A New Parlor Is Open: Legal Writing Faculty Must Develop Scholarship on Generative AI And Legal Writing “As legal communication experts, legal writing faculty are…