It’s free, it’s easy, and it’s causing an uproar in schools around the world. You can type “Write me a 1,000 word essay on artificial intelligence” and within seconds ChatGPT spits out an essay! Do you think what it produces is accurate and of good quality? Should these tools be allowed in schools? Judge for yourself. Recently, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 which can respond to both text and images. Give it a photo of the food in your fridge and ask it what you could make, and GPT-4 (paid version) will come up with recipes that use the ingredients in your picture. And, it even understands jokes.

TRY IT

(*similar tools to ChatGPT, but no login required)

Write an essay on any topic: You Write

Create an Image from Text: Deepai or Craiyon

As you know by now, algorithms can become sexist, racist, ableist, and overall unfair when they are programmed with racial, gender, or other types of discrimination. For example, AI can automate discriminatory hiring practices if the algorithms are using data that has bias, such as men getting higher paying jobs. All too often the data sets use the experiences of white men, while marginalizing and erasing the experience of people of color, particularly women of color. Algorithmic models are also often discriminatory to disabled people, often for some of the same reasons - as groups who are excluded from data sets.

These are not opinions, they are facts! See some data:

• Brookings Institute: Algorithmic bias detection and mitigation

• Penn State: AI language models show bias against people with disabilities, study finds