The debate about the benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence, and more specifically ChatGPT, is heating up. In an posted on the Future of Life Institute, tech luminaries and prominent researchers, such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell, are calling for tech companies to temporarily hit the brakes on the development of AI technologies.
The letter鈥攏ow signed by more than 10,000 people鈥攅xpresses deep concerns that 鈥渞ecent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one鈥攏ot even their creators鈥攃an understand, predict, or reliably control.鈥
With those big-picture technological concerns in mind, it鈥檚 not surprising that some school districts鈥攕uch as the New York City schools, the nation鈥檚 largest district鈥攁re banning the use of ChatGPT in schools, except for the purposes of teaching students specifically about AI and technology. Others have taken a more flexible approach, allowing access to the technology because they believe students and educators need to learn how to use it effectively and appropriately.
Those opposing approaches raise an important question: Should K-12 schools ban the use of ChatGPT?
We asked ChatGPT itself that question. Here is how its artificially intelligent mind responded: