Texas Tech Law allowing students unrestricted AI usage on FINAL EXAMS so long as professor allows it
One of my law school professors emailed to say that he doesn't care about AI usage for our final exam tomorrow for a 1L doctrinal course, as in he's placing zero restrictions on it.
I understand that there's a push to use AI for the legal field, but doesn't it seem absurd to allow it without restrictions for a final exam in a doctrinal course? I can't imagine any employers will want to hire us if they find out that our school is allowing this.
There is no official policy regarding AI usage from the school yet, but there is absolutely a clause in the honor code regarding collaboration and plagiarism - which are both honor code violations. How is unrestricted AI usage allowed?
I think this is crazy and my personal feelings on AI aside, I don't see how it can be allowable by any respectable law school.
We emailed several faculty and were basically told because the school has no official policy regarding AI restrictions for exams, that professors can decide whatever they want and it stands. The school basically gave students blanket permission to type in prompts and copy/paste them for their exam as long as the professor says they don't mind, which is insane to me.