I was subbing in a high school ESL classroom the other day and a particularly obnoxious kid said he was done with his book report moments after it was assigned. To prove it, he showed me this very elegantly worded report with very sophisticated ideas and interpretations, that I am sure this kid was capable of thinking through, but not writing down that quickly or elegantly. Maybe if the assignment had then been to analyze his own paper, that could have been useful for him, but it wasn’t. He clearly was just using AI to cheat. Luckily I’m just a sub and could let his teacher have that conversation.
Although AI sounds good for many applications, what troubles me is the lack of concience to the decision making process. I'll give a instance so I can make this clear, the military talked of creating robotic medics to go after wounded on the field and retrive them. If you are the military, how big a jump is this to making unending war a possibility? Simply put, if you can build a medic that can risk nothing and do the job of fetching wounded off the battlefield, how much of a jump is it to make soldier automatons? Once you replace the flesh and blood concienceness and concern for fighting war in the first place, what will stop continual war? It didn't take long for the military to change course on women in the combat arms when the number of available men to fill the military ranks droped! Having a ready supply of robotic fighting "men" also allows for even more poor proformance by the leadership within the military. No one really dies or gets hurt, other than the tax payer who is left to pay for their excesses! It has never been a problem for the military in the past, it certainly wouldn't be a concern for them in the future! Robots are the perfect soldier, they don't think of self preservation, they will act on orders no matter how stupid they might be, and likely will not function based on concience and concern for others, what we call "heros" today. War really would become a"game" that only ends when the world is completely depleated of resources to build more robots!
I was subbing in a high school ESL classroom the other day and a particularly obnoxious kid said he was done with his book report moments after it was assigned. To prove it, he showed me this very elegantly worded report with very sophisticated ideas and interpretations, that I am sure this kid was capable of thinking through, but not writing down that quickly or elegantly. Maybe if the assignment had then been to analyze his own paper, that could have been useful for him, but it wasn’t. He clearly was just using AI to cheat. Luckily I’m just a sub and could let his teacher have that conversation.
Although AI sounds good for many applications, what troubles me is the lack of concience to the decision making process. I'll give a instance so I can make this clear, the military talked of creating robotic medics to go after wounded on the field and retrive them. If you are the military, how big a jump is this to making unending war a possibility? Simply put, if you can build a medic that can risk nothing and do the job of fetching wounded off the battlefield, how much of a jump is it to make soldier automatons? Once you replace the flesh and blood concienceness and concern for fighting war in the first place, what will stop continual war? It didn't take long for the military to change course on women in the combat arms when the number of available men to fill the military ranks droped! Having a ready supply of robotic fighting "men" also allows for even more poor proformance by the leadership within the military. No one really dies or gets hurt, other than the tax payer who is left to pay for their excesses! It has never been a problem for the military in the past, it certainly wouldn't be a concern for them in the future! Robots are the perfect soldier, they don't think of self preservation, they will act on orders no matter how stupid they might be, and likely will not function based on concience and concern for others, what we call "heros" today. War really would become a"game" that only ends when the world is completely depleated of resources to build more robots!