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can potentially do the work for them.

In the case of Spaete’s IB classroom, she has found herself moving more towards a pen and paper environment rather than digital learning. The class itself is heavily focused on reading and discussion and although annotation and writing assignments persist, she has found herself modifying curriculum to where students complete the reading at home and are required to complete the annotations or written component in class to monitor students and ensure their thoughts are being evaluated.

“I think AI skills are hurting students in a number of ways,” Spaete said. “It’s hindering the capability to think critically because you’re using a tool that does all the thinking for you and you’re losing the human aspect or the connections you would make in your own mind. You’re not actually thinking through something, it's just processed for you. Also, it would create further problems with people’s ability to communicate and later in life, it will end up harming them when they look for jobs and they have to do skills on their own because they won’t be able to have that foundation.”

Using AI platforms, the outcomes seemed limitless. However the chatbot raises an important concern in a high school setting: the large potential for plagiarism of work. Furthermore,

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— CHS Principal Laura Springer the chatbot creates individualized responses each time the prompt is entered. That aspect of the AI platform creates a unique challenge for instructors to combat as they attempt to differentiate between a student’s writing and the work of ChatGPT.

“[When teachers allow students to use ChatGPT], they’re giving [students] a resource they’re already probably going to use and giving to them and saying ‘use this wisely,” CHS junior Samhitha Kona said. “Now [the students] can’t just fully cheat and have ChatGPT completely make an essay for them. can definitely see how using it in your classroom and saying ‘you can use this as long as you use it wisely’ is better than just saying nothing about it. Then it feels like the students have the upper hand and [this way] the teacher does because they are fully aware about it.”

Using a combination of platforms, ChatGPT can be utilized to create text to prompt videos that can be used as an instructional tool for both teachers and students. Thus, if teachers give a prompt of instruction that explains a topic discussed in the classroom, a video can be generated that students can refer back to when needed to refresh their memory on the topic or simply to understand it better.

“At its current ability level, I would not use it as a teaching tool, but could foresee in the future that it certainly will improve,” CHS AP Statistics teacher Dr. Lowell Johnson said.

“One downside going forward is that right now ChatGPT is free. expect that’s going to change and that might change what schools do with it because if they can’t access it for free, it might not be something they’re so excivted about using. That raises another question about once they start charging for it then it’s going to be a tool that well to-do families can use and poor families will not be able to have access to it so there’s an equity issue there and if we use it in education.”

One of the unique abilities and main uses of ChatGPT has been its ability to write accurate, programmable code. Moreover, ChatGPT can produce code in a variety of languages including C++ and MicroPython. With that unique functionality, AI can

AI-generated art

Ex. 1

Changes to the global economy

It is Jan. 22, 2018 in Seattle.

Normally welcomed with a greeter, you now encounter a train station style row of gates that guard the door, only allowing people with the store’s app inside.

The 1,800 square-foot store is packed with shelves of food that is typical of other stores. It is not the products that make the store unique. It is the actual shopping experience.

Prompt: a drawing in the style of microsoft paint of a person playing table tennis

Ex. 2 therefore serve to reduce the time spent on certain tasks and the money needed. Despite AI not being able to change based on data, it can evolve and that creates better backend processes and better code.

Prompt: “a windows 95 pop up window displaying a warning about a computer virus” DALL•E 2 is an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. Though it has made considerable progress and is largely able to mimic styles of visual media (as can be seen in Example 1), it still has its flaws, including the inability to generate actual words or phrases (as can be seen in Example 2).

“With early development in reading skills and so forth, there really is a process to learn how to read and write,” CHS AP Computer Science Principles teacher Michael McCabe said. “The same thing goes for using an AI. It’s an easy quick fix or it can be. The kids still need to learn the material. However, think it could be a useful tool in developing some of those skills.”

Despite the impressive writing capabilities of ChatGPT, there still is, according to CHS teachers, the major differentiation between a human’s writing and ChatGPT’s writing: an actual human-like component to the writing. Although there is that aspect missing, the program is still “creative and its answers can sound downright authoritative.”

“I think we'll always have to have human beings that know how to discriminate between what's right and what's wrong,” CHS Principal Laura Springer said. “I think that a computer can imitate you to a certain degree, but I think that human characteristic, social things that we need to be teaching you, those character traits that we need to be teaching you, a computer can't do that for you. I'm not afraid of [AI]. I think you can use it as a tool. Let's use it, let's let it be a tool to enhance, but let's not be afraid that it's going to take over because do believe we still need that human interaction, we still need those human skills that we need to teach.”

As for CISD schools and buildings, the effect of AI technology remains unclear as platforms like ChatGPT, Grammarly, Mathway and Photomath are still being used, as with any form of technology, room for improvement still stands.

"AI in technology is going to be a game changer, to what extent is still to be determined,” CISD Executive Director of Technology Stephen McGilvray said. “Specific to CISD, the Curriculum and Instruction team will determine what will be incorporated into the classroom and the instructional lessons being taught. [The] technology [department] will be here to support that direction."

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— CHS IB English III teacher Stephanie Spaete

There are no cashiers or registers anyway. As shoppers get ready to leave the store, they pass through the same entry gates without having to pull their wallets out at any point. Rather, as customers place items into their cart, their Amazon account is automatically charged for the products and the opposite applies when products are removed from the cart. Customers are then charged for the products they go home with.

The employees who are working at these stores are tasked primarily with stocking shelves and answering customer’s questions.

As of January 2023, there are 33 Amazon Go stores throughout the United States and 15 in the United Kingdom. But the concept of a store that incorporates AI technology is not necessarily new. McDonald’s, Walmart, Lowe’s, Walgreens, Sephora, Taco Bell, Macy’s and H&M are just a few of the many stores that have begun the transition to implement new technologies in their stores.

The case of Walmart doing away with cashiers in stores to offer “new checkout experiences” for customers via self-checkouts, pickup and delivery provide the perfect example of one of the major concerns when it comes to AI technology. It could replace human workers.

“In economics, we kind of push back on [the idea that AI will replace human workers] quite a bit,” University of Dallas assistant professor of economics Dr. Malcolm Kass said. “While some jobs or trade does disappear because of technology, that just opens up new markets, while maybe in the near term, it's hard to transition over, eventually people start to take those jobs and we have different job mixes. Once you release this labor supply, there's other ways the labor supply can be used and they'll find new ways to use them. We’ve been going down this since the last industrial age for the last 300 years and we have yet to find widespread unemployment because of technology [in the developed world.]”

Despite that fear, Accenture covered 12 developed economies that comprise more than 0.5 percent of the world’s economic output and found that AI could double their annual global economic growth rates by 2035. There are three primary reasons for this type of rapid growth: an increase in labor productivity, the creation of a virtual workforce and the diffusion of innovation.

“[AI] is like most technological innovation, at the beginning there’s some fear because the first thing you immediately recognize is what sorts of functions it will replace,” University of Dallas associate professor of economics and Chair of the Economics department Dr. Tammy Leonard said. “But, as we’ve seen throughout history, with every new technology that enters the workforce, new jobs are created and things change and are modified. expect it to work out much like we see happening in so many other places in that it’s going to cause a shift in the labor market, but it’s not going to be a net negative, think it’s going to be a net positive.”

A study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers approximates that global gross domestic product could increase by up to 14 percent (around $15.7 trillion) by 2030 as AI is incorporated more and more into the economy and society. But the distribution of those gains is not spread as evenly with North America potentially seeing a 14.5 percent gain ($3.7 trillion) and China would see a 26 percent increase ($7 trillion). On the other hand, Latin America can only foresee a 5.4 percent increase ($0.7 trillion) and Africa, Oceania and others would witness 5.6 percent growth ($1.2 trillion).

“Essentially, we’re missing out on the human capacity in [less advanced] countries,” Leonard said. “In a developed country like the United States, when you have these great wealth gaps it often means that people at the bottom are not able to develop their human capacities. We, as a society, all of us benefit if all the people can flourish and contribute to society. So when we have these growing gaps, one of the negative outcomes is that you miss out on the potential for people at the bottom end of that spectrum.”

In computer science, AI is leading to the development of new algorithms, models and techniques for building intelligent systems. It is also driving innovation in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision and robotics. In engineering, AI is being used to optimize design processes, improve product quality and increase efficiency in manufacturing. For example, AI is being used to develop predictive maintenance systems that can detect potential equipment failures before they occur, reducing downtime and increasing efficiency.

“Everyone just thinks that AI is going to take over all of these jobs, but in reality the professionals in computer science and engineering careers are the people creating these AIs,” CHS junior Naisha Jain said. “You’re developing these, you have to refine them and constantly make them better. It wouldn’t get rid of too many jobs because they’re always ways to improve a website or the functionality or the aesthetics and that's the computer science aspect. Computer science is navigation and engineering could

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— University of Dallas associate professor of economics and Chair of the Economics department Dr. Tammy Leonard include marketing it because that's part of the engineering design plan, you have to produce, market and sell it to the world.”

Apart from just ChatGPT, other AI powered platforms have existed that have provided tutoring services and homework help for students of all ages including Photomath, Mathway even Grammarly. But those apps have the potential to take business away from physical tutoring services, some of which many CHS students work at.

“Personally when it comes to Gideon, we cater towards younger kids,” CHS Sowbarnika Morsa said. “Our highest math is geometry and our highest reading is comprehension. Typically our age goes from about 4 years to 12 so don't think we have as much of an issue with ChatGPT because mostly those tools are used in high school and we have almost no students in high school. I think maybe centers that cater towards older kids who go to high school may be more affected by it because their clients are more likely to use online tools compared to tutoring centers.”

One of the other industries that stands to be affected to a great degree once AI is incorporated into it is the healthcare industry. AI can be used to do claims processing, clinical documentation, revenue cycle management, medical records management and can go as far to improve medical diagnoses.

“If we’re talking AI, they already use robotics in surgeries, I know they’re using AI in that application as well and that's given us more precise surgeries with less trauma to patient tissues with faster recovery times, so that's phenomenal,” CHS Medical Assistant teacher Rachel Chesney said. “I just don’t want it to eliminate jobs from real people and eliminate that connection and listening.

Artificial intelligence can’t pick up on emotional context and be able to decipher what that means underneath it all. They may be able to understand an inflection in voice that says a patient is upset, but can they help that patient cope? So by having a one-on-one conversation with the patient, you can often pick up on those little nuances and lead with your patient history to try to figure out what’s going on with that patient so you can truly help them. Then that further information helps us to create a better diagnosis. AI can’t do that.”