Artificial intelligence has had a profound impact on the world, but how is it affecting the students? The use of artificial intelligence has skyrocketed in recent years. In an informal survey made of forty-six DHS students, fifty percent of students admitted to having used artificial intelligence. This is a huge number of students at DHS. However, the number of students using AI does not get enough recognition.
While AI has a lot of negative effects, there are certain positive effects of AI on the education system. For example, personalizing learning. AI can create personalized learning courses for students whot may have trouble learning. These courses are not only used for people with learning disabilities, but can also be used for people who are working towards career advancement, personal upscaling, and business integration. There are some downsides to AI courses, like decreasing human interaction, having bias or untrue information, and collection of vast amounts of student data leads to a privacy issue. Though there are plus sides of AI in the education system, these plus sides often have downsides attached.
The use of artificial intelligence is also causing great harm to the education system. But even without AI, technology is a prominent thing in the education system. Year by year, it gets more integrated into the everyday school lives of both the students and the teachers. The use of AI has expanded all the way from just writing essays for students, to teachers even using AI to make their assignments. AI has been getting more and more advanced, and while it is getting smarter, its use in the education system is creating problems in the United States.
An education system where teachers have to use AI detectors could hardly be considered a reliable educational system, especially when the AI detectors are not accurate and have flaws. For example, when reviewing the United States Constitution, AI detectors flagged the document as being 94 percent AI-generated. Another example of this happening would be portions of the Bible. The oldest book of the Bible, Genesis, was flagged as AI-generated by an AI detector. Flagging things as AI that are not AI will most definitely lead to confusion and wrongful punishment in the classroom.
AI detectors are not reliable. There are no efficient ways to detect AI, as well as being used as a quick way out of an assignment. While AI has its benefits, like personalizing education or improving accessibility for students with disabilities, I conclude on the belief that the development of AI is doing a greater amount of damage to the education system than the benefits it may possibly be bringing to the United States.
