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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly become a hot-button issue in the United States. Despite corporations shoving AI down our throats whenever possible, more and more people are rejecting the technology and the data centers that fuel it. These concerns about AI have now reached the classroom, where teachers are worried about how the technology will affect students\u2019 learning and critical thinking skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A poll conducted by NPR\/Ipsos found<\/a> that 54% of polled teachers are concerned that AI makes it harder for people to think for themselves. These concerns are valid, as several studies have already been conducted showing that people who regularly depend on AI chatbots show reduced critical thinking skills<\/a>, creativity<\/a>, and attention spans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think students who aren\u2019t already intrinsically self-motivated to be critical thinkers, like that top 1% of the class \u2026 I think people who are not already that personality type, we\u2019re going to see those critical thinking skills atrophy over time,\u201d Christa Corricelli, a special-education teacher at Saugus Middle\/High School, told NPR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re in an environment where teachers feel like this is going to fundamentally reshape the future of education moving forward,\u201d Mallory Newall, a senior vice president at Ipsos, told NPR. \u201cThey have serious concerns about AI\u2019s impact on how they relate to their students and how students relate to each other.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Michele Naber, a veteran biology teacher at El Toro High School in Orange County, Calif., told NPR that she uses AI in the classroom to teach students how to properly enter prompts and to verify their accuracy. One example Naber gave NPR is that she\u2019ll tell students to ask ChatGPT to describe an animal, and they\u2019ll compare the description it gives with how the animal actually looks and note how things the chatbot gets wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s one of the things that has to be taught: You can\u2019t take it literally,\u201d Naber says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While the majority of teachers polled expressed concerns about the role AI could play in the classroom, 60% of the respondents said they use AI as a tool to help with work tasks. Naber told NPR that she uses AI tools to help generate answers for multiple-choice tests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s something that normally, as a teacher, would have taken you probably upwards of an hour \u2026 and it minimized the entire task to five minutes. That\u2019s helpful,\u201d Naber explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While teachers are concerned about the us of AI by students, what\u2019s been interesting is how roundly Gen Z seems to be pushing back against AI on their own. This year\u2019s college graduations featured several<\/a> commencement speakers<\/a> receive a chorus of boos anytime they embraced AI. Graduates from an Arizona community college had their ceremony derailed by a malfunctioning AI reader<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While we\u2019ve seen older filmmakers like Darren Aronofsky and Martin Scorsese embrace A<\/a>I, 20-year-old Backrooms <\/em>director Kane Parsons gave a fairly succinct read of the technology in a recent interview<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think I\u2019m in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,\u201d Parsons told the outlet. \u201cIf I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It makes sense that young folks are rejecting AI, as it has already had negative effects on the youth beyond impacting their learning abilities. A group of teenage girls has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk\u2019s xAI<\/a>, after its AI chatbot Grok was used to create sexually explicit images of them without their consent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cxAI chose to profit off the sexual predation of real people, including children, despite knowing full well the consequences of creating such a dangerous product,\u201d Vanessa Baehr-Jones, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether it\u2019s teachers, students, or artists, no one is terribly enthused about the corporate-driven AI future. They keep telling us that AI is inevitable, but what happens if only a limited few really embrace it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n SEE ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Alcorn State University 1st HBCU To Fully Integrate AI<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professors Fear AI Is Ruining Education. Students Say It Depends<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly become a hot-button issue in the United States. Despite corporations shoving AI down our throats whenever possible, more and more people are rejecting the technology and the data centers that fuel it. These concerns about AI have now reached the classroom, where teachers are worried about how the technology will affect students\u2019 learning and critical thinking skills. 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