Yesterday I was disappointed that my friends’ 10 year old daughter was banned from using any AI to aid her in her projects. Apparently her teacher thinks it’s too easy to cheat with it, so it’s totally banned. 

So I was showing her how to use ChatGPT (with her parents permission ofc), making different photos together, showing her how I use it to make candle scents and measure items. Disappointing schools are not teaching kids how to use AI, feels like they’re failing them.

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the bigger danger—aside from less exposure to AI in a classroom setting, which I understand as a teacher—is that this encourages more close-minded views towards AI at precisely the worst time in their development. 

this will be the first AI-native generation in the same way that millennials grew up with the internet. the last thing teachers should be doing is injecting their own political bias into an issue rather than encouraging students to think critically and form their own perspective.