Using a machine to think for you is a “route to mental flabbiness.” People who believe in artificial intelligence don’t approve that AI is a “route to mental flabbiness.” Their theory and feeling about AI is it hones your cognitive shift.
These same people claim that AI “removes the drudge work,” and that smart people can use AI to be smarter and more productive.
These advocates of AI at sometime had to hone their skills on their own without the help of AI.
AI removes the “doing,” and giving the students an AI chatbot, iPad or smartphone to answer all their questions makes a student mentally lazy.
These children are our future. They are the next generation of parents, voters and citizens, and we need them to think on their own, because kids learn by doing. The students should have the ability to learn by doing. AI poses a serious threat to children’s cognitive development and emotional well-being.
In 2016 Norway gave every child in the country at the age of 5 years old an iPad of their own. The outcome a decade later was disastrous because the Norwegian child struggled to read. About 500,000 Norwegians can’t read a text message or simple instructions, because of the damage caused by the iPads from previous years, and the children struggle to read. One of the negative consequences AI is having is that students are having an inability to develop a meaningful relationship with their teachers. Seventy percent of teachers worry that AI weakness critical thinking and research skills. The Center for Democracy and Technology is also concerned about the negative impact on students and their reasoning, and they don’t want the students getting lost in the shuffle. Students are deserving of a good rounded education, and it seems that AI could be a deterrent to that.
The point of education in the AI era is to equip students in asking the AI chatbot why it gave you the answer it did.”
Lois Eisenberg
Valencia
