Please share any fear(s) you might have regarding Artificial Intelligence

[just me]

Talked with my Sister today about AI. She said her granddaughter is using AI at school. She is very wary of this. My biggest concern is the teachers that are allowing this. I like it but feel the teachers should ask for at least a second opinion other than AI with proper footnotes. Why? I do not want to see the generations behind us lose their curiosity. I do not wish to see them always using shortcuts to learn. Critical thinking must be taught in schools. Checking the AI source with other sources should be part of the learning so people do not use critical thinking. With AI, we can set our own boundaries with it. This also should be taught and used. What say ye?

 

[QuickTwist]

AI is good for some things, but it is still prone to being very wrong about some things as well.

AI tries to give information, but it also tries to cater to the person talking to it. So, you can convince it to give you answers that are simply not true.

Example:

 

[ErikAlberto]

My oldest daughter is about to go into kindergarten, @just me, and I’ve reflected a lot on the problems of AI integration into the education system.

We seriously need developers to create AI specifically designed for educational environments, where there are strict parameters and boundaries built into the framework. It should also be highly adjustable for various grade levels, and citation capabilities need to be beefed up.

Additionally, when it comes to the type of assistance students can get from such an AI, it should never default to rewriting anything. In fact, I lean towards thinking it should never be allowed to rewrite anything for a student at all.

I would like to see AI in education function primarily as a teaching tool—providing guidance on writing and math questions by offering adjacent examples, providing critique, and asking questions that steer students toward the answer rather than simply giving it to them.

And lastly, incorporating AI into education in its current form concerns me very much. I don’t agree with it.

 

[Roses In The Vineyard]

Besides dumbing down society that is already brain rotted to the max it would be either corporate or the state abusing it as tools for societal enslavement such as social credit systems real time control over the financial system such as freezing accounts as a means of punishing people etc. They could do a lot more with this like disabling people's cars (the latest models) to enforce lockdowns.

 

[TomasM]

I have no fear of AI because it is an incredible tool but just like any tool it needs to have guardrails for protection. For example, I wouldn’t go sticking my fingers near a circular saw or a grinder without safety.

That said, I don’t trust people who own and operate AI to behave in a moral and ethical manner. It’s not much different than the ring Frodo carried in LOTR. Power and greed can corrupt a mind and that is where the real problem resides.

 

[SlowUpTake]

Power and Greed do corrupt. I see vast potential for disrupting the zeitgeist's perception of what is real and shaking the foundations of what is generally held to be "the good". Other then that its great... https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/

 

[aeon]

No fear of AI, only fear of my fellow human beings.

Cheers,
Ian

 

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