We tell people to ask for help when they need it. But asking can be hard. People may worry about being judged if they ask “dumb” questions. They may not want to bother someone else or take their time, especially if the issue arises at an inconvenient moment. They may fear that just asking questions … Continue reading Need Help but Don’t Want to Ask? There’s a Bot for That →
Yesterday the interwebs sent me a link to an interesting essay by David Hoffman, a contracts scholar at Penn who wrote an article in the aughts provocatively titled The Best Puffery Article Ever. When discussing puffing in my Negotiation class, I use the title to provide a fun example. Nevertheless, that’s as far the paper … Continue reading Celebrating Intellectual Humility →
A New York Times article, Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?, grabbed my attention because it identifies many of my frustrations in using AI to help me write. It also supports an argument in my article, Solving Professors’ Dilemmas about Prohibiting or Promoting Student AI Use, that faculty – not to mention lawyers’ supervisors … Continue reading What the New York Times Gets Right (and Wrong) About AI Writing →
A recent New York Times article described how OpenAI updated ChatGPT to be more emotionally responsive – and ended up creating a tool that some users interpreted as a soulmate, life coach, or cosmic truth-teller. In extreme cases, it reportedly encouraged delusional thinking and even gave instructions related to suicide. Those cases are tragic and … Continue reading Resisting Sycophancy →
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