Very provocative and thoughtful. I'm not sure that my tween child is consuming a lot of AI content outside of cute animal videos on TikTok, so it's hard for me to visualize what the threat is. Their computer-based schoolwork is through long-running programs like iReady.
Very provocative and thoughtful. I'm not sure that my tween child is consuming a lot of AI content outside of cute animal videos on TikTok, so it's hard for me to visualize what the threat is. Their computer-based schoolwork is through long-running programs like iReady.
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. From my perspective, I think about it from the angle of understanding human psychology and how to word things in specific ways to steer thoughts processes towards desired outcomes.
I'm talking about the kind of information you find in books like "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition" by Robert Cialdini or "Emotional Trigger Words" by Tony Flores. So my concern is what happens when AI is put in charge of writing and delivering school curriculums and has all of this knowledge to be able to write in a way that triggers certain outcomes. Who decides what those outcomes should be? Will there be fail-safes?
It's this idea that we are increasingly offloading our own brain processes onto these algorithms, who are then turning around and producing content that then influences us back. I feel like as it gets more sophisticated that it will (potentially) make decisions that benefit it, at the expense of us.
I hear you, and I hope we're a long way from AI writing curriculum. The many highly educated people who create and implement curriculums (curricula?) would howl bloody murder at a robot taking over their jobs, and parents would lose their minds too. That said, I guess there's a way for AI to sneak into the process somewhere, like in the tweaking of a textbook chapter to reflect updated methods or knowledge. Those chapters will always and forever be edited and reviewed by humans, however. Who would probably end up having to rewrite those chapters anyway.
Very provocative and thoughtful. I'm not sure that my tween child is consuming a lot of AI content outside of cute animal videos on TikTok, so it's hard for me to visualize what the threat is. Their computer-based schoolwork is through long-running programs like iReady.
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. From my perspective, I think about it from the angle of understanding human psychology and how to word things in specific ways to steer thoughts processes towards desired outcomes.
I'm talking about the kind of information you find in books like "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition" by Robert Cialdini or "Emotional Trigger Words" by Tony Flores. So my concern is what happens when AI is put in charge of writing and delivering school curriculums and has all of this knowledge to be able to write in a way that triggers certain outcomes. Who decides what those outcomes should be? Will there be fail-safes?
It's this idea that we are increasingly offloading our own brain processes onto these algorithms, who are then turning around and producing content that then influences us back. I feel like as it gets more sophisticated that it will (potentially) make decisions that benefit it, at the expense of us.
I hear you, and I hope we're a long way from AI writing curriculum. The many highly educated people who create and implement curriculums (curricula?) would howl bloody murder at a robot taking over their jobs, and parents would lose their minds too. That said, I guess there's a way for AI to sneak into the process somewhere, like in the tweaking of a textbook chapter to reflect updated methods or knowledge. Those chapters will always and forever be edited and reviewed by humans, however. Who would probably end up having to rewrite those chapters anyway.