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AI & Scholarship

When writing, research, and even peer review can be generated, what is left of scholarship and teaching? An ongoing inquiry into AI and the making of knowledge.

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2023–2026
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July 10, 2026
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  1. 1If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption2026AI’s New Advances At the end of last year, at someone’s request, I wrote a piece, Will AI Restructure the History of Science?.…
  2. 2Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately2026It’s graduation season again, and recently many universities in China have acquired a new task: checking AI-generation rates. Rules like “if AI-generated content…
  3. 3The Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again2026Hu Yilin Interview | July 10, 2026 ◆ Lead-in | In May 2026, an international medical conference held in Copenhagen was drawn into…
  4. 4Can General Education Outmaneuver the Majors? — A Loose Talk from Course Assessment Methods to ChatGPT2023Note: I originally just wanted to vent a bit about the feelings stirred up by a wave of severely plagiarized assignments, but as…
  5. 5Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good2026Hu Yilin on AI Writing, Authorial Responsibility, and the Academic Paper System IntroductionAfter science fiction writer Hao Jingfang spoke about AI’s participation in…
  6. 6“Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 092026This is a written interview, published in issue 160 of Xinrui Weekly; it was abridged when first published, so here I am posting…

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Philosophy of Technology & AIThe Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again2026.07.10Philosophy of Technology & AIThe AI Training Craze Should Not Turn into a “Certificate Movement”2026.07.08Philosophy of Technology & AIStop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good2026.06.24Philosophy of Technology & AIUniversities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately2026.05.27Philosophy of Technology & AIIf Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption2026.05.09Philosophy of Technology & AIGathering All the Books in the World—Can the Library of Alexandria of the AI Era Endure?2026.04.23Philosophy of Technology & AIWill AI Restructure the History of Science?2026.03.24Philosophy of Technology & AI“Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 092026.01.06Philosophy of Technology & AILet Beibei Become Someone Different from Yang Weiwei2025.11.01Philosophy of Technology & AIIn the Digital Age, How Do We Win the “Battle to Defend Childhood”2025.06.01Philosophy of Technology & AIDo We Still Need to “Read” in the Age of “Swiping”?2023.04.21Philosophy of Technology & AICan General Education Outmaneuver the Majors? — A Loose Talk from Course Assessment Methods to ChatGPT2023.03.19