








AI is terrifyingly powerful. It will undoubtedly have, and already has, implications for most fields of work. Determining how to use it - and not have it use us - is the sticking point. I am concerned with students leaning on AI in ways that will stunt their education, and with professionals using it in lieu of their own minds, to their own detriment. Given the limitations of systems like chatGPT - it is not a search engine, but a large language model - it cannot produce information. When a system is limited to predictive regurgitation of human knowledge, we run the risk of making misinformation, or just poor-quality information, even more prevalent. Many risks to these technologies. In my view the only clear benefit is that it can make "mindless" tasks quicker and easier (ex: cleaning up and/or expediting coding processes).  How will we ensure that students, and professionals, are not using it to write things for themselves?
