Technology Will Not Go Away
...school faculties are trying to ban the use of AI. Parents worry it is making their kids dumb. We have been down this road before....
I hear people complain about AI. Employers worry that an employee's job is too easy now. Universities are paranoid that no ne of the students are writing their own papers anymore. Elementary school faculties are trying to ban the use of AI. Parents worry it is making their kids dumb. We have been down this road before, several times.
When the car was invented economists declared that the car would undermine traditional family values and community life. Families would lose shared routines and the car would destroy the family unit. Or better yet the calculator....
When calculators became available and affordable broadscale to the general public schools were outraged. Many have tried to and some have successfully banned the use of them. It is only in recent years that they have realized their mistake. Sure general computational basics do need to be taught. But whyforce a student to do complex calculatuons by hand on the regular? If they can showcase that they understand the fundamentals there is no need to waste time with it, right? For example why ask a student to work out the answer to a quadradic equation for 30 minutes by hand, 5 days per week for 4 months straight- That is nearly 40 hours that the student could have used to read 2 additional books, or learn a new skill.
My point is people always complain about change. People were upset about the car, the calculator, the spreadsheet, the internet, the electric guitar, the remote control etc... Technology is moving forward - like it or not. There is no stopping it. The best we can do is embrace it and find ways to use it in a supplementary manner to enhance ourselves or our families.
The only way to use AI is to understand what it's limits are and not allow it to replace our day to interactions with our loved ones. It can assist us with school work or tasks at your job, maybe even at home. But we need to know what is real, what is not and find ways to manipulate and use AI to improve our lives, not run our lives. We can and should use it, but we must be guard not to allow it take over our society the way let the mobile phone or social media. It's all about balance.