Everybody knows that AI will take away everybody’s jobs, transform the economy in unimaginable and undesirable ways, and eventually kill all of us. Of course, everybody’s probably wrong about all of those things, so the question arises: What are the real promises and perils of AI? And how do we separate fact from fiction, especially in higher education?
AI and our future
“AI has no concept of reality at all. AI simply makes things up. It has no concept of what’s true and what’s false. When it gets things wrong, it’s making things up; and when it gets things right, it’s making things up. This means that you can’t trust it one bit. So we want to know how our students can deal with something like that.”