Post #1490106

@abucci Completely agreed. I find the amount of learned helplessness in tenured professors pretty alarming. In this case, the PI is choosing to let the discussion and ultimate policy emerge from discussion with the group, rather than simply putting his foot down. I like that he's trying to get more opinions and make the whole lab feel involved. However, this same tendency when taken too far can be an abdication of responsibility. It's a bit of a pattern with him: conflating freedom and autonomy of his students with never providing them strong guidance based on his much greater experience. We also have never attempted to codify what values the lab works by, which makes it hard to talk about whether use of LLMs aligns with those values. At least this discussion is raising some of those value questions.