573: Can AI Be Your Law School Tutor?

I mean, it was like, "Don't cheat." And you're like, "Sounds good." But some of these AI policies are really complicated, and it can be challenging to know what each of them means.

So, that's where I thought we would start this back to school episode with talking about how do you know what your [laughs] school's policy is about AI?

Yeah, and they're kind of all over the map.

I think this is true in law school.

I know it's true in undergrad.

I was interviewing some people recently, and it was interesting, in their undergrads, just wildly disparate.

Some of the schools gave them AI and told them to use it in everything.

Other ones, like you absolutely cannot use it for anything.

So yeah, law schools are also really all over the map.

I mean, one that got a lot of attention recently was at Berkeley.

So, in the summer 2026, when we're recording it, I mean, they basically almost barred people from [laughs] using AI for anything, which-

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I found really surprising given where they're located.

I just thought it was a really interesting choice.

Yeah, you know the Bay Area.

We are all [laughs] a lot of contradictions.

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I also can't get cell service in certain pockets of the Bay Area-

Yeah

... which also I'm like, "Didn't-

True

... didn't we, like, come up with some of this tech?" [laughs] Like-

Also, driving across the Bay Bridge, I sometimes lose cell service.

I'm like, "Is this necessary?"