We must stop asking "How do we protect homework from AI?" to start asking "What is a homework for in a world where knowledge is a cloud service?".
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This is a post with simple but powerful idea, and one that I've been developing over 2 years.
We are going to talk about how our expectations of what the future should be clash head-on with society and generate an increasingly evident dissonance. We already talked in a previous post about the importance of "zooming out" and understanding the local and global context when assessing the consequences and preparing for exponential technologies, but in this article I want to talk more about the human biases that exist when facing a technologically superior reality (I do not want to focus too much on the fear of AI as I will dedicate another article to it)
I decided to do this blog, as a result of the light bulb came on after an exchange of ideas by X, I will explain a bit the context of the conversation I had at the time.
One person exposes the little impact that feminism has in AI and how it is necessary that feminism is integrated right now in AI, since later it could lead to problems for women.
I at the time ask her how this could be achieved, the answer from her side was that by encouraging the entry of women into a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education , and here is the tringulis of the matter, Regardless of the debate of feminism in AI, I think this conversation brings up a problem that goes pretty much unnoticed when it comes to AI. And that is that people have not yet had time to come to grips with the fact that AI transforms and touches everything. We are at what I call "The Crossroads of the Pre-AI World ."
My opinion at that time was completely biased, I reflected on it more with time and it was better portrayed and nuanced in this article.
Most people today would answer without hesitation Yes, to the question of whether AI is a field that will have a lot of potential and should be studied. But probably very few would answer the question What do you think is the right educational methodology to study AI based on its changing nature? And most would probably go head first into university without even thinking about it. The truth is that even I am not sure if my answer from long ago can be the right one today (Time has passed, some things will have changed in university...) surely if I had not informed myself enough my opinions would still be attached to this bias of the "Pre-IA" world but, one thing is certain, regardless of the nuances of the **** debate*"Is university useful today?"* ****we will not even be able to reach such enriching debates if we do not even consider that we are biased and that everything today is anchored to laws and rules that might not apply in the kind of world we are going to, anyway, let's stop thinking and get down to business.
The pre-IA world is my way of referring to the environment, problems or approaches that are completely transformed by the existence and adoption of technologies such as AI. When I talk about the pre-AI mentality, I am referring to the fact that many people are still unconsciously focused on the norms, values, and ways of doing things of the pre-AI world, thinking about their problems from an approach that obviates the new technology. Without stopping to think about the change that AI or other technologies can bring about, without exposing themselves to debate or testing the technology in depth to get to the truth.
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Many of these people are following an unconscious common sense manual that is really quite outdated and if not updated can lead them to a cliff they do not see.
The status quo, moved and reinforced by pre-IA gears, in many cases prevents us from realizing what is happening. The traction of the system leads us to only realize that we are burning when blisters start to appear on our skin and the pain is unbearable.
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A clear example of something conditioned by the pre-IA bias is advertising, today millions of people continue to invest in online advertising. Without taking into account that advertising is going to be one of the sectors most affected by AI, since the fact that search engines such as Perplexity (which extract whole paragraphs from websites with advertising) exist, limits the visualizations and therefore, it completely undermines the whole business model on which the Internet has been sustained until now.
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By this I don't mean that some habits or customs are wrong or need to be rethought for AI, but rather, that we are not aware of the inertia we have from pre-tech habits, nor the advantages of doing things differently. If we are not aware of these small incongruities and ignore them, we cannot even consider changing things for the better. (And if you don't change them, someone else on the other side of the world might. And as we live in a globalized world it could affect you in the long run). I am also 100% sure that in the future many of the habits that are obsolete today could become popular again, or coexist with the new habits of the AI era. However I think it is necessary that many of these habits arise from the conscious and informed decision to do things that way. For example:
The following phrases and beliefs are built from a strong bias of the pre-AI world, they embrace in some part the imaginary and collective status quo we maintain to continue to feel safe, many of these beliefs are in danger in the vast latent space of possibilities that AI is slowly expanding.