As the world keeps growing, Artificial Intelligence has begun to appear more and more in our everyday lives. Even in the everyday lives of teachers and students, you always experience it from Google’s AI Overview, to your For You page on Instagram. But underneath all of it is an underlying feeling of fear. But before any of that, how do ARHS students use it?
“I use it sometimes to help me make quizzes or practice problems to prepare for tests, or simplify formulas/concepts needed to be applied in class,” sophomore Alessandra Townsend said.
And it seems that many students do the same. From sophomore Norah Moutzouris using it to “make study guides I can review before tests,” to senior Adam Massie using it to “study and summarize long readings.”
While AI certainly seems useful, there is only so much it can help.
Freshman Mitchell Hernandez warns students about overly relying on it.
“I get that an assignment can be long and time consuming, but it’s not going to help you learn or get the concept in your head.”
Senior Harmony Langinbelang instead worries about its plagiaristic tendencies.
“To develop dependency on AI, artists (such as myself) aren’t fond of people using AI at all, due to many AI users would take someone’s art and copy their art.”
According to a 2016 report from Stanford University, the term AI was first introduced in 1956, when attendees of a workshop at Dartmouth College attempted to simulate the growth of a human mind through technology.
But now, it has grown so much that schools worry about how it will put people out of jobs, or how students who rely on it too much are unable to function independently.
From the perspective of school administrators, there is a good reason why schools are so adamant about avoiding AI.
“Schools are strict on no use of AI because we would like our students to be able to function without it… As we are trying to train you all for the real world…, ” said counselor Veronika Raguzin-Holloman.
Raguzin-Holloman warns students “to be careful not to become too dependent on it. In most jobs you are expected to write and you cannot completely rely on AI.”
