By Esme Nichol and Lev Nirenberg
While AI has potential to help solve complex problems, you’ve likely also heard serious concerns about it. Especially about the ways it affects students. We used to live in a world where we relied on school and homework to get us to a stable lifestyle, but when AI was created, our lives were significantly impacted. AI is a tool that we rely on in our daily lives. It tells us everything we need to know. In some cases it’s good, but in others it could seriously affect a student’s brain. However, there is a tool to help teachers check student’s work to see if they used Chat gpt or other AI platforms.
Usually kids, parents, teachers and people in general use AI all the time. You may not know it, but you use AI in your daily life too! Whenever you look something up on google and see the “AI overview”, it’s giving the information that it found all over the internet to you. “ Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way we work, play and communicate”, said Tiffany Munzer, a Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.
AI especially affects the student brain because it is still growing, meaning if kids don’t learn how to do work on their own, they might never. Some studies show that the most interactive toys, games and internet platforms made for children depend on AI technology to get students to use it even more. One thing that most students know and use a lot is chat with Gemini. Another fact is AI can be dangerous. If you think you are talking to a human on an unknown number you might be talking to AI. We might never know if there is a person behind it or not …creepy, right? AI also doesn’t give students the benefits and social skills that talking to a human would. Now, we can’t predict the future but we’re guessing in 2050 all students will be using AI. Scientists are trying to figure out when it will now take over, and estimated around 45 years. (20701)
39 A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to year olds from the Boston area into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Google’s search engine and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG (EEG stands for electroencephalogram, which is a test that measures and records the electrical activity of the brain.) to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that out of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay,often resorting to copy and paste by the end of the study. Overall AI is good for some things like helping you for almost anything you need. It is also really bad for other reasons like potentially taking over the world
