On the opposite hand, the pitfalls are legion. To begin with, it may possibly easily induce laziness. It might sound easier to have a machine write your emails for you or summarize some book that you simply half-read. But shortcuts often end in long delays. And if you happen to don’t put within the work to grasp something yourself, and writing is at the least halfway essential to understanding, then, well, you won’t understand. And that’s an issue. If TV, then the Internet, then Smart Phones, could make Dumb People, how rather more can ChatGPT, and its various AI cousins, make us change into only superficially intelligent ourselves? As someone who has taught undergraduate students at a university level, I’m sometimes astonished by the shortage of ability to put in writing a coherent sentence, let alone a paragraph. What AI will do to an already semi-literate if the usage shouldn’t be rigorously proscribed doesn’t bear interested by. We think in words. We think as we write. AI could cut out that for some, and that can have untold consequences.Â
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