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LettersAs a thinking race, we must think further about the impact of AI
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ChatGPT has disrupted academic learning, forced academia to take a stand on it and prompted a debate over artificial intelligence. Some compare the arrival of ChatGPT with the invention of tools like the calculator and Excel, citing the need to embrace technological advances as a society.
But AI is not a mere tool. It is part of a technological evolution that is changing how generations of people think and behave.
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In a few short decades, the internet has changed the way we learn and exchange information. With the arrival of the internet, we were overwhelmed with information, and needed to learn to be discerning. Then social media arrived, and started to dictate how we receive, digest and share information. Meanwhile, traditional industries like print media and publishing, whose authority rested on proper study and trained professionalism, were disrupted.
Unlike the calculator or Excel, these new tech tools – useful as they are – came with value orientations advantageous to the vested interests that see us as mere consumers.
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It is right to reconsider our current trajectory in our coexistence with AI, especially among the academics who are custodians of learning.
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