According to a survey, over one in four RCMS students use artificial intelligence this year at school for a variety of subjects.
Based on a survey, 27.8% of RCMS students have used AI at least once for their assignments. Around 11.1% of RCMS students used AI over seven times.
Although these statistics may sound high, it’s less than the national average. According to a survey from Junior Achievement, 44% of teenage students are likely to use artificial intelligence for schoolwork instead of doing it themselves.
Some teachers at RCMS said they are okay with the use of artificial intelligence for research purposes as long as it’s not used to generate essays as a whole.
“I think that students should have access to AI just like anyone else would, but I think we should give instructions or how it should be used,” says Mr. William Darr, an eighth grade civics teacher on the Discovery team.
Now, technology often has incorporated artificial intelligence into their innovations.
“It will make life easier but it can take jobs,” says Eileen Kim, a seventh-grader in Dream Team.
Artificial intelligence is just as precise as a human, and sometimes even more. AI is expected to take over 85 million jobs worldwide by 2025. But the trends in AI will also create new jobs. On Upwork, a marketplace for job agencies, generative AI job listings have increased by more than 1,000% in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the end of 2022.
“We are in 2024 and it’s just the start,” said Ms. Jessica Hale, a seventh-grade English teacher on the All Stars team. “Who knows what’s going to happen next?”
Despite AI’s powers, it has limitations. Although AI poses as a human, artificial intelligence won’t be able to replicate human emotions. Unlike a human, AI has no creativity, and can’t have empathy. Also, artificial intelligence isn’t always accurate. If the data that it’s trained with is inaccurate, it results in a flawed system. Artificial intelligence cannot tell the difference between reliable and unreliable information to generate their responses.
“People start to think that it is smarter than they are, but a human invented AI in the first place, ” says Mr. Darr.
