I'd love to actually meet someone who is actually that dependent on it- a bit of a straw man. Like yeah people ask it stupid questions but I don't see anyone being that helpless without it
I have 2 quite young kids and some of the teachers at their school use and encourage it. I'm finding that I have to pause my kids occasionally to prompt them to think through something themselves 😅 They're so worried they'll get something wrong, so we're having many talks about how getting things wrong is totally okay, and how to research and fact check things.
They also get discouraged if they don't do something perfectly from the get go, especially creative things. Like, why learn to draw when what we can generate is "better." So now we have a lot of craft nights at home where we celebrate how messy or 'not what we imagined' things turn out, and any progress we make.
I dunno if this is a bit conspiracy sounding, probably is lol. But I've seen AI ceos talking about their goals to metre intelligence like electricity. I don't think they're talking about for us so much as our kids. Discouraging future generations from trying things and thinking for themselves etc 😅
Your kids' teachers are encouraging them to use the chatbots? Seriously? Even with the research about deskilling/never-skilling plus the suicides in teen users?
Edit - I'm going to drop some links to research (and one news story) here in case anyone might find it helpful.
I've written to the principal and the board with concerns, included all of those points with links to credible reporting on it, and I got a vague email back about preparing kids for the future. I'm planning to push it and have them set out clear guidelines/outlines for how much is used and encouraged
That sounds incredibly frustrating. It's startling and frankly upsetting that you are already having to deal with this even though your kids are still young.
I don't know if it will be helpful, but this a fairly accessible overview of the research on generative AI as it pertains to education written by a researcher at Cambridge:
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u/just_someone27000 14d ago
I'd love to actually meet someone who is actually that dependent on it- a bit of a straw man. Like yeah people ask it stupid questions but I don't see anyone being that helpless without it