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In class today we focussed on AI and the uses it could have for us as teachers. Michael showed us some example prompts that we could feed into ChatGPT and in my opinion the most interesting one was the lesson plan prompt. He asked the program to design him some lesson plans for a specific topic and grade and almost instantly was given an entire lesson plan. Also, if he didn’t like what he saw originally he could just click regenerate and it would give him a brand new plan. It certainly does feel like cheating but if it is a resource that is available, it is hard to not take advantage.

I have talked to a few teachers about using AI and they have all given me similar responses. They say something along the lines of, “it has many great ideas, but I don’t see myself relying on it.” In my opinion, eventually AI is going to be a pretty common tool in the world just like how the internet became readily available for people back in 1993. So people are weary of using it and don’t want to admit to using it because they don’t want people to think they are “cheating.” Eventually, that misconception will fade away and people of all professions will be using AI to make their lives easier.

There was also a discussion about the ethics of AI. I raised a question about AI potentially displacing people out of their jobs. The example I used was somebody who has the job of helping you find resources in the library. Why would I go into the library when I could just ask ChatGPT and quickly get the job done. Another argument for AI in this case is that ChatGPT is free and accessible. Hiring an employee to do the job is not. So if I was an employer, I would ask the question of why would I be paying someone to do a job that a computer can do for free? I know that sounds harsh but it is a harsh world. Another interesting point that I often ponder is how are teachers going to make assignments knowing that students can just get ChatGPT to do it for them. Michael made a great point in saying a way around this is to get kids to inject a human element into their projects. Human elements such as their own experiences, opinions or emotions. I never thought about that and will keep it in mind going forward.