{"id":329177,"date":"2026-05-23T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329177\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:43:09","slug":"plagiarism-issues-prompt-uc-berkeley-officials-to-ban-ai-at-law-school-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329177\/","title":{"rendered":"Plagiarism Issues Prompt UC Berkeley Officials To Ban AI At Law School: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKELEY, CA \u2014 UC Berkeley&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/uc-berkeley-law-school-ai-22271280.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The university announced the policy change on Thursday, and it will go into effect in the summer. <\/p>\n<p>The new policy will bar students from using AI &#8220;for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit,&#8221; according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Those courses are usually only reserved for students nearing the end of the program, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are ways to use the technology that can up a lawyer\u2019s 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,&#8221; Berkeley law professor Jonathan Glater told the Chronicle. <\/p>\n<p>Read more from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/uc-berkeley-law-school-ai-22271280.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, CA \u2014 UC Berkeley&#8217;s law school is banning the use of AI for most purposes after teachers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-329177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}