Plagiarism Issues Prompt UC Berkeley Officials To Ban AI At Law School: Report

BERKELEY, CA — UC Berkeley's law school is banning the use of AI for most purposes after teachers found students were using it to complete coursework, prompting plagiarism concerns, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle.

The university announced the policy change on Thursday, and it will go into effect in the summer.

The new policy will bar students from using AI "for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit," according to the report.

Some teachers and students will still be allowed to use AI, only in courses designed to teach how to use AI ethically and legally, according to the report.

Those courses are usually only reserved for students nearing the end of the program, according to the report.

"There are ways to use the technology that can up a lawyer’s game, and if I am teaching a more advanced class that aims to prepare them to use this tool in practice, it would be weird to prohibit its use," Berkeley law professor Jonathan Glater told the Chronicle.

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