Meet The Editors!

David Kilday is a freshman at LASA. He is interested in Artificial Intelligence and wrote articles about the behind-the-scenes of how AI works. When prompted with the trolley problem David said that he would “stay on the track” and not get involved, causing the death of 5 orphan children rather than killing Obama and a puppy. When he is not doing homework, David often plays video games because they give him a “good challenge.” He is also planning on going to college and getting some sort of job. During his interview, he was asked what he thought would happen if all dirt was replaced with mashed potatoes, to which he responded that humans would then probably eat dirt and that the ground would squish down a little bit.

Noah Volk, preferably called Noah, is a LASA student that enjoys playing video games with friends and reading to escape. After he graduates, he wants to move to Scotland, as it’s really pretty, and get a job in computer science. In EZINE class, he wants to write about AI art and the complications with it, the people who make it, and how it works. More broadly, Noah’s opinion on AI is that “it’s really cool, it can do a lot of good things for humanity, but it’s pretty scary.” The most interesting thing about Noah is that he’s “not an interesting person.”

Theo Coleman, who is interested in rock climbing and 3D Printing will be writing about reactions to AI in our Magazine. He recently (6 years ago) cut his finger off but had a really good surgeon and recovered in time for this issue of the Ezine. Theo also has no idea what he’s going to do after he graduates because he hasn’t put any thought into it. He doesn’t have many thoughts about Basket Random, except that it’s making Traver get his work done slower and that he once was playing two games at once and was “being twice as unproductive in the same amount of time.” He also believes he has tried rice pudding before.

Traver Laudadio is a LASA student that likes to read and play video games because reading is “A nice escape from reality” and he enjoys entertainment since it is a nice relaxing thing to do after school. After graduating high school, he would like to find a job involving computer science, which hopefully won’t be overrun by AI, so he can make a living that can support a family. In this Ezine, he will write about AI’s involvement in producing text. Something interesting about Traver is that his family vacations all across the US every summer in their RV.

Quinn Kart is a freshman at LASA High School in Austin, Texas. After he graduates, he wants to find a stable job and live a nice life. In Ezine, he wants to write about how AI has changed over time, and how it is affecting people in their day-to-day life. He enjoys playing games because he “enjoys entertainment, like a normal person,” and thinks that it’s a very relaxing experience. Quinn says he is an ordinary person and there’s nothing especially interesting about him.