Topic: “How do you plan to integrate AI in your life going forward – whether personally or professionally? Do you feel you have a choice here, for example is deciding not to use AI an option?”

As AI is becoming a huge head-turner in modern technology, I stop and wonder how this could affect me as a human being in relation personally and professionally. If I were to be honest, on a personal level, I do find AI kinda useful for my needs and interests. Such as brainstorming what to do on a day, what to learn something new based on facts and instructions, and what to follow if you have a simple health concern, like stress.

On a professional note, I still find AI useful for my cognitive disability needs, such as simplifying instructions and creating a simple task checklist to get things done, however, AI is still pretty questionable when it relates to academics because anything can go wrong and you do your best to figure out how to use AI effectively in your academics without becoming too dependent on it as a “Solution to everything”. It’s like the internet for example, it may seem like it has answers to everything but there are misinformation and fraud on the internet that we sometimes have no knowledge or evidence that is true.

As a human being, I still have a choice. There’s nothing stopping me from making a decision that could affect me in the future. As long as I pause and think carefully about how I use certain things, like AI, the result of my choice will only say.

When it comes to AI, one of the main concerns is how this could actually affect education. Like the computers in the 1980s introduced to schools, this is yet another evolutionary step into the education system for better or for worse. There are many benefits when it comes to AI guiding students to better their education, however there are disadvantages that can also guides students to the wrong path for misuse of AI. Starting with the benefits that can improve students’ education;

Many students all have an interesting way of learning and it can sometimes be not so easy for professors and teachers to create a special way of teaching just for each of them such as following instructions. AI has the capacity to simplify instructions for students and sometimes create a checklist for them so they can easily understand the objectives of their assignments.

Another good example for usage of AI in education is source searching. Like working on a school project, AI, such as NotebookLM, can assist finding the sources you need based on the topic you request.

While there are several advantages to using AI as a guiding tool, there are some that needs to be worked on or keep in mind:

While searching for certain topics like on, NotebookLM, to keep in mind is that AI will always be data-hungry. Sometimes, Ai can go off course from the request like, “I found some sources on dinosaurs along with dinosaurs dental hygiene.” Extra sources that sometimes doesn’t relate to what students need to know at the time can affect the students’ study on facts and fictions.

Another example, is the misuse of AI as a way to cheat on exams and homework assignments. While students can use AI as a way to study and help them on the line, some students would intentionally misuse AI by looking up all the right answers and save them time, if misguided for using AI.

We can make AI an acceptable tool to the education system, but like all cases, we must find all loose knots and make sure they are tighten. Meaning in this relation, we must find solutions to make AI acceptable and opening towards student without misguidance or misusage.

Creativity is how people express themselves through art, knowledge, science, and all of work and hobbies.

I was experimenting with google gemini by asking them to create a poem about the stars in William Shakespeare format and this is the result I got:

“When I behold the night’s deep velvet gown, Broidered with sparks of gold and ancient light, The weary world puts off its heavy crown, To watch the silent pageant of the night. Each burning orb, a sentry in the sky, Doth mock the fleeting breath of mortal men; Though kings and empires in the dust shall lie, These silver fires shall surely rise again.

Think not their distance makes their counsel cold, For every beam is steeped in mystery; They write in fire what time hath not yet told, And chart the tides of every restless sea. So let me gaze, till dawn doth break the spell, And find in stars the truths no tongue can tell.”

I noticed something’s:

1. It was able to generate a poem in a way that Shakespeare could’ve written.
2. however, reading this poem has felt uninspiring. Like, there is no potential or inspiration that wants me to connect with this generated poem.

Sure, you generate something quick and easy, but for some reason it’s not very inspiring when it’s not coming from a human’s perspective on life. Art is meant to be cherished in some ways, something to tell our tell from the heart, mind, and spirit on how we see life from our view and share that wisdom to others to connect and inspire.

To my experience of prompting, If I were to be honest I was kinda confused with some of the concept of this experiment. However one thing that caught my attention was personal prompt since I’m so used to asking questions in regards to what I can do to improve myself. For the personal experiment, I asked, “help me be more productive.” I used google gemini and what It did is constrained by making a list of production by advising to master my to-do list, protect my focus, manage my energy, not just time; and optimize my enviorment. When I added persona + goal, it mentions about S.M.A.R.T. Goals. That was the only thing that improved, however it may seem like it got confused.

If there’s something interesting about learning with new AI apps and learning the topic about facial recognition. I noticed two things:

1. Learning with a brand new AI app you never used before becomes more learn-able the more you experiment.

When it comes to AI, we are all very familiar with ChatGPT. How it’s just there in public. Considering that it can give you answers, all the answers are generated. Which leads me to my thought on another AI I’m newly using, NotebookLM. The idea of NotebookLM is that it imports resources based on what you need to know like ‘how does AI affect the Environment’. Next you can ask for a report based on how you ask it to make it; giving you a clean, shorten summary from the amount of resources into a couple of pages in relation of the topic. NotebookLM is a great resource for student needing research, while ChatGPT just generates answers that it thinks is what you wanna hear.

1. Facial Recognition and how it affects the environment.

During class, as I was working with my group, we were talking about AI facial recognition. Knowing that there are different aspects in relations of facial recognition like how it relates to police work or how it affects the environment. I, as a student majoring in environmental studies want to learn more about the environmental aspect of facial recognition. From what I gained from NotebookLM the environmental aspect of AI face recognition is that considering that facial recognition is a valuable tool, however, we should be required to be cautious care and transparent for its potential impact. The consequence of facial recognition can lead to mis-recognizing people’s faces based on race and gender bias. This can also cause false accusation of the wrong people in traveling and law enforcement. I have also learned that there is a surveillance paradox, such as biometric passwords. It is unchangeable, therefore can possibly increase the risk of identity theft. In short, facial recognition doesn’t just affect people of race and gender, it also affects the systems of law enforcements, traveling, and identity on the internet. Which also leads, to companies are in charge of AI would be dealing with serious charges and penalties based on the actions of facial recognition that the people won’t abide.