Tired of Reading About AI? Me Too.

I am tired of hearing about artificial intelligence. Since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, it feels as though I cannot go a day without being subjected to AI against my will.

Enrolling in law school only made things worse. My law school and its overarching university are not on the same page about AI. UCLA has embraced the new technology. It was the first university in California to offer enterprise-level ChatGPT. The business school hosts an annual Embracing AI summit. Undergraduates are encouraged to use AI to assist with their learning.

But in the law school, AI remains controversial. For example, all first-year law students complete a year-long Legal Research and Writing (LRW) course. In the fall semester, we were instructed that any suspected use of AI to complete our final paper would result in a report of an academic violation — serious business for any student, but doubly so for law students, whose academi…