How often do you read positive news on AI? It’s certainly not common, especially within assessment and education. Earlier this month, news broke that at South Korea’s Yonsei University, student’s had been caught screenshotting test questions and pasting them into ChatGPT during a midterm assessment. Stories like this are now commonplace and, understandably, fuel the fires of anti-AI sentiment.
In the last episode of The VICTVS Podcast, we spoke to academic integrity expert Dr. Thomas Lancaster to discuss contract cheating, a phenomenon that increasingly involves AI. We have also previously written about AI hallucinations, and about how chatbots and image generation tools can get things very wrong.
Alongside the risks AI poses to academic integrity, many people are also concerned about its impact on mental health. Conversations with chatbots can be hard to end, as these products are designed to continuously push for user engagement, meaning that people who turn to chatbots for advice may end up stuck talking to a robot when they’d be better off speaking to another human being.
But is it really the case that AI can only have a negative impact? To find out, we invited AI advisor and author of the AI newsletter TheWhiteBox, Ignacio (Nacho) de Gregorio Noblejas, to join us as a guest on The VICTVS Podcast.
In this episode, we discuss some more positive AI news stories with Nacho, including the impact of AI learning on students at Texas’ Alpha School and AI’s potential to democratise knowledge. We also consider the contribution of AI chatbots to rising levels of loneliness amongst children and young adults, and explore how we can work with the technology rather than fight against it.
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