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The New York Times’ AI Opportunity – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led the charge in surfacing evidence of plagiarism against now-former President of Harvard University Claudine Gay, was born in 1984; he joined X in 2015. Harvard, meanwhile, is the oldest university in the United States — older than the United States, in fact — having been founded in 1636. That mismatch is perhaps the most striking aspect of the Gay episode: a millenial on Twitter took down our most august institution’s president by employing the 4th of Saul Alinsky’s Rules of Radicals: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” In this case the book of rules was the Harvard University Plagiarism Policy: It is expected that all homework assignments, projects, lab reports, papers, theses, and examinations and any other work submitted for academic credit will be the student’s own. Students should always take great care to distinguish their own ideas and knowledge from information derived from sources. The term “sources” includes no

The New York Times’ AI Opportunity – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content The New York Times’ AI Opportunity Monday, January 8, 2024 Listen to Podcast Watch on YouTube Listen to this post : Log in to listen Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led the charge in surfacing evidence of plagiarism against now-former President of Harvard University Claudine Gay, was born in 1984; he joined X in 2015. Harvard, meanwhile, is the oldest university in the United States — older than the United States, in fact — having been founded in 1636. That mismatch is perhaps the

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