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?

Whether it’s academic, work, or personal use AI can be very dangerous. I know some people who do not like AI in any way; They don’t like AI because they are worried people aren’t fully learning when they use it. People also don’t like it because it is creating a very unsafe environment with the pollution it creates.

For me, I will try to use it as little as possible. I think that getting rid of AI from my life would just be a silly concept considering it will be there for the rest of my life. Instead of not using at all, I can retain myself from using it in every situation or every school assignment.

When I am reading something I will try to understand it and apply it to the situation just like Dinsmore and Fryer said. It is important to know that AI isn’t an “easy way out” of work or assignments. It is there so it can help you understand something more than you can already comprehend. I hope more people will start to use AI as an idea and concept builder instead of an assignment accomplisher.

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C) I’m a Data Science major who’s gonna be looking for full-time work in the tech sector starting next semester. Given that the work I’m aiming to gt into will use a lot of machine learning and repeated tests, using AI like LLMs is going to be very useful (and likely essential) for handling the bottleneck of taking up a lot of time to draft boilerplate code and setting up tests for models. Also, a lot of companies are pushing their engineers to use AI for their work, likely to keep up an output rate that the bosses would want you to have. Their philosophy being it’s better to prototype multiple times and amend it rather than writing the code from scratch and then looking up documentation for syntax things. I think if you want to work in the tech sector in a decently sized company you wouldn’t really have a choice to not use AI. At some point, your managers would get on your case for not having an output as fast as your coworkers (the quality of their code would be irrelevant). For myself personally, I’ve found LLMs very useful in my coding (for personal projects and for a research project I’m currently working on) for the boilerplate code, but knowing the logic for what functions and such to use is still very important for human engineers. An example of this already impacting people is for ex. Meta, who is starting to have AI-Assisted coding interviews. companies are definitely pushing people, and other companies, to use AI in their work. The main issue is definitely environmental on a corporate scale. Companies should not be allowed to cheap out on their payment for evnironmental resource use that Data Centers takes advantage of, especially in small towns.

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?

Honestly, I see AI becoming something I use the same way I use Google or a calculator it’s just part of how I get things done. For school and anything related to computer science, I’d use it to help me understand concepts faster, debug code, and get unstuck when I hit a wall. It saves time, but I’d still make sure I actually get the material, because if you just copy what AI gives you, you’re not really learning anything.

In my personal life, I’d probably use it to stay organized, plan things, or learn new stuff more efficiently. But I wouldn’t want it to take over everything. There’s still something important about figuring things out on your own and thinking through problems without shortcuts every single time.

As for not using AI at all, I don’t think that’s very realistic anymore. It’s already built into so many things we use every day, so completely avoiding it would honestly just make life harder. But I do think there’s a difference between using it as a tool and depending on it too much. I’d want to stay in that middle ground where it helps me, but I’m still the one actually thinking.

I think the most important issue in how I plan to integrate AI going forward is making sure it does not replace my thinking. Once it starts replacing my role as a thinker, the line between my learning and AI get blurred. If I become completely dependent on artificial intelligence to perform these things as writing, problem solving, or analyzing, I will fail to develop the necessary skills of understanding how to learn and apply knowledge.

I see this clearly in my own academic work. For example, in a statistics assignment, I could use AI to generate a full solution and get the correct answer quickly. Obviously that does not mean I understand the concept or could do it again on my own. When I do the work and solve the problem myself and use AI to check my answer or explain where I went wrong, I am still going through the learning process. The difference is if AI is replacing the work or supporting it.

It matters because AI is going to become part of education and future jobs, so not using it is not a good or smart option. If people rely on it too much, they risk losing core skills and becoming dependent on it. My solution is controlled use, use AI for feedback, clarification, and efficiency, but not as a substitute for learning or decision-making.

c) 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?

I plan to continue using Ai in my life going forward in a big way. I plan to become a teacher and during this time I plan to have it help me make rubrics, project ideas, etc. I feel like I do have an option weather or not to use AI but I do think it could help me and benefit me in a big way.

The case study I will do is from last week Ai in academics. The article I really liked was Dinsmore and Fryer “What does GenAi mean for student learning?”. Here in this article I think it brings up muliple good points on weather Ai is good for using in school/acidemics. This article would and will be great since I want to teach and could help me and the students on weather to use or not use Ai.

We should be paying tons of attention to this topic in academics because as time and Ai evolve, it will only make it easier for kids to pass courses and class. It is getting harder and harder for some teachers to detect whether a kid or student is or has used Ai on an assinment.

a) If you could sit down with the CEO of one of the major LLM platforms (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), what would you like them to know about college students’ perspectives on AI – whether about how students are using LLMs, their ethical concerns, fears about future job prospects, or whatever else?

I would let the CEO know that college students’ perspectives on AI surround the idea that they understand the benefit that AI can provide; however, the way schools are still set up hinders their ability to get the most out of AI to aid their work. Despite the lack of framework surrounding ethical use of AI, students can use LLMs to organize their ideas, as well as generate tables or graphs that they have gathered data for already, and using LLM’s to receive feedback on their essays or projects. Their ethical concerns arise with schools standing strong about their classic statement, “AI use is prohibited of any kind in coursework,” as well as relating usage of AI directly to violating academic integrity. For example, last year, I remember going into all my spring semester classes on the first day in January and seeing the same statement on AI use in the class like it was copy and pasted on every course syllabus. Additionally, there is general fear among students that AI will takeover the job market and available jobs will be limited and not able to employ the population, which is a very scary thought. I would really like to ask the CEO what he thinks about job security and availability as AI continues to grow. Goldman Sachs added to the conversation, “Despite concerns about widespread job losses, AI adoption is expected to have only a modest and relatively temporary impact on employment levels” (Goldman Sachs, 2025). This is mildly calming, but the overarching question and fear remain uncertain.

Overall, I think the importance remains in questioning how AI will perform in the job market and its impact on job availability, potentially leaving qualified people unemployed because they are not machines and cannot think as fast as machines. Hopefully, with students engaging and learning how to use AI ethically, humans being able to learn to most effectively use AI may lead to a potential human plus AI era of society, where both benefit each other and are able to co-exist in society and function properly and well.

Reference: How will AI affect the global workforce? (2025, August 13). Goldman Sachs. https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/how-will-ai-affect-the-global-workforce