"I don't like A.I., and I am raising my children not to like it. I've been telling them for years now that chatbots are manipulative and dangerous, that A.I.-image generators are loosening our collective grip on reality, that large language models are built atop industrial-scale intellectual-property theft."
"In February, my son, who is in third grade at a public K-5 in Massachusetts, came home with a piece of paper in his backpack which read 'Certificate of Completion,' for 'demonstrating an understanding of the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.'"
"The game is an inane drag-and-drop affair that has little to do with A.I.; the certificate, it turned out, was merely a memento of a pointless and deceptive branding exercise."
Many parents and educators are increasingly critical of A.I.-aided education, believing it to be unnecessary and harmful. Concerns include the manipulative nature of chatbots and the potential for A.I. to distort reality. A parent recounts their experience with their children being exposed to A.I. concepts in school, highlighting a specific instance where a third grader received a certificate for a simplistic A.I. game. This experience is viewed as a trivialization of A.I. education and a branding exercise rather than meaningful learning.
Read at The New Yorker
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