A professor who helped write UC Berkeley’s strict new AI policy says it’s about preserving ‘the value add of a lawyer’

A professor who helped write UC Berkeley’s strict new AI policy says it’s about preserving ‘the value add of a lawyer’

UC Berkeley Law School is implementing a stricter AI policy. The general policy is that students can no longer use AI for activities such as brainstorming. UC Berkeley Law School professor Chris Hoofnagle said it’s about making sure students learn fundamental skills. UC Berkeley Law School’s stricter AI policy forbids students from using it for…

If you’ve started using AI to write emails you used to write yourself, psychology says you haven’t saved time — you’ve outsourced a micro-decision that was quietly telling you something about what you actually thought

If you’ve started using AI to write emails you used to write yourself, psychology says you haven’t saved time — you’ve outsourced a micro-decision that was quietly telling you something about what you actually thought

Add DMNews to your Google News feed. Tension: Every time you hand an email to AI, you skip a small act of thinking that was quietly surfacing what you actually wanted to say. Noise: The AI productivity conversation frames cognitive offloading as pure efficiency gain, erasing the hidden cost of what gets offloaded along with…

University students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

University students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

Debates about generative AI in higher education have been informed by studies of completed student papers, or self-reported survey data. Research shows that artificial intelligence tools can support learning, but also has raised concerns, including students’ overreliance, cheating, and the potential degradation of critical thinking and engagement. While these types of studies provide interesting snapshots of reported…

College students are writing with AI, but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

College students are writing with AI, but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

Credit: Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels Debates about generative AI in higher education have been informed by studies of completed student papers, or self-reported survey data. Research shows that artificial intelligence tools can support learning, but has also raised concerns, including students’ overreliance, cheating, and the potential degradation of critical thinking and engagement. While these types…