As students and teachers prepared to return to class, University of Minnesota professor Bruno Chaouat digs into the philosophical issues raised by AI. Writing in First Things, Chaouat argues that students using ChatGPT may initially get good grades, but will end up impoverishing themselves intellectually by delegating their thinking process to an algorithm.
Where the Courts Just Aren’t Cricket
Judicial reforms in Britian will soon allow pre-sentencing reports for cases involving “an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority” offender. With these reports meant to argue for a reduction in punishment, Frank Haviland observes in The European Conservative that the unmistakable belief behind the move is that “only white men deserve to feel the full force of the law.” Welcome to two-tier justice, British-style.
