Over the past week I have conducted research on AI and how it affects my own life as well as the world around me. Generative AI is changing the world, and with change comes fear which is why I believe it is often seen as a negative contribution to society. In his Youtube video Generative AI a Sea Of Change, Lucas Wright discusses the changes in the world being created by AI but more importantly how we as a society should respond to them. Lucas depicts that today in education students no longer have the problem of seeking information as they can use AI to access whatever they need which is changing how students complete work. Rather than trying to fight AI, Lucas argues schools should be changing to work with AI. Students need to be learning how to evaluate AI and tell if its accurate. This would allow for students to have a new set of valuable skills in judging the quality of AI and knowing how to guide AI properly. With this assessments would also need to change to both encourage use of AI and the transparency around it.
I completely agree with Lucas’s ideas around AI and how he provides a response to the change AI is bringing to society. Implicating AI into education would allow for people to more familiar and therefore less afraid of AI. For me personally I have been working hard to use and become more well versed in AI over the past year. I pay for CHAT GPT premium monthly and utilise it to study and learn material in university which up until now it has worked very effectively. I actually wish I used generative AI in high school more as it would have made studying more efficient and less stressful however I just failed to realise how useful it was at the time. I understand why my school was not promoting AI as it also can be a tool for students to break academic integrity but I believe if they encouraged the use of it with transparency instead most students would have benefited from it.
On top of the topic of AI in grade school, I think that educators should also be learning how to understand AI themselves so they can actually teach it. Educators typically have extensive on the information they are sharing. With AI, the vast majority of educators finished their own training well after the invention of generative AI meaning few educators understand AI themselves. I think that it would make sense for there to be multiple classes and even degrees in Generative AI offered by universities with how important it is in today’s society. In fact I am surprised this has yet to happen on a large scale. The point of education is to keep people relevant in whats happening in the world and today, generative AI is quite possibly the most important tool to access and yet education around it has yet to be specifically offered. This will likely change as I believe that within 2-3 years there will be classes, programs and degrees revolving in AI as the world responds to the change generative AI has created.