Columbia Law School updates AI policy with new restrictions
Columbia Law School has become the latest to issue a new policy regarding how artificial intelligence can be used, restricting its use for written work for exams, developing arguments and legal analysis. (Photo from Shutterstock)
As the academic year kicks off, Columbia Law School has become the latest to issue a new policy regarding how artificial intelligence can be used, restricting its use for written work for exams, developing arguments and legal analysis.
The policy, effective Aug. 1, gives the faculty discretion regarding some instances of AI use, and it permits employing AI to “support learning” and “perform specific functions.”
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Three years after generative AI entered the consumer market, law schools are still making adjustments to policies.
In July, the University of Chicago Law School adjusted its AI policy to ban phones and laptops in 1L courses and mandate that exams happen in class without access to the internet, electronic files or apps.
In May, the University of California at Berkeley School of Law banned students from using AI for class assignments and during exams. A month later, the University of Texas at Austin School of Law called for faculty to use Socratic-style questioning in teaching and to view classroom time as “the sole context in which a professor can be certain that a student” is learning without AI.
Also, some law professors are moving to “old school” methods of conducting exams, such as pen and paper, handwritten finals and oral exams, the ABA Journal reported in June.
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