Artificial intelligence is emerging fast in today’s society. From serving people at restaurants to writing papers, AI is everywhere.
Did you know that AI can predict earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural disasters? AI has helped fight cancer, as well.
While it’s true AI progression has helped countless people, 47% of United States adult citizens have voiced concerns about how frightful AI technology advances are.
According to the National Academy of Professional Studies, AI carries worries of threats to human freedom and challenges existing rules.
AI definitely poses a threat to human creativity, expression, and uniqueness. When AI thinks for a person, this individual is partaking in cognitive offloading.
Cognitive offloading, a factor caused by AI, will cause humans’ ability to think to weaken.
Cognitive offloading is using external tools to reduce mental effort. An example of cognitive offloading is when someone might use Google to look up ideas for a painting project.
Everyone has seen that one movie that deals with AI taking over. So, what if fiction becomes nonfiction? What if AI has the potential to overthrow its makers?
These fears are completely rational because AI is programmed like a human brain. Humans are scary enough, but a robot with a human brain is quite terrifying.
Elon Musk says there’s a 10% to 20% chance that AI ‘goes bad’ and that AI poses an existential threat. Musk is raising billions of dollars for his own supercharged AI, even though he says there’s still a pretty good chance the technology backfires.
You may think it doesn’t affect students, but AI presents multiple cheating methods. If a student cheats on every test and exam in his/her education, how will this student adjust to doing real work in the workforce?
Chat GPT and countless other AI applications create challenges for teachers all across America. Cheating and distrust are shared feelings among teachers now.
If a teacher tells a student to write his/her original thoughts for a paper, the teacher expects the student’s original work. When a student turns in an AI-generated work it creates distrust.
Additionally, AI can get out of hand and harm a student’s learning journey.
Chat GPT causes students to suffer from memory loss and causes tanking academic performance. This means students are getting lazier and this laziness can cause failures.
If students are lazy and don’t pass their education, potential job opportunities become wasted. For example, if an individual can’t collect his/her thoughts for a company report, the individual has the potential to be fired. These failures will lead to a sickly unemployment rate which is not great for the economy.
Furthermore, if students cheat their way through school using AI, we will be left with a society that can’t think, can’t create, can’t devise, and can’t compute.
Personally, I’m afraid of AI world domination. I know this sounds irrational, but is it really?
It is important to approach AI with caution and responsibility, knowing that it is potentially dangerous.
AI can cause more harm than good. Readers should be wary of AI and the advancements that follow. Therefore, don’t give AI more power than it already has, and resist the easy way out.
