I didn’t touch AI content until December 2024. To many people of my generation, Gen Z or younger, this may come as a shock. How? Not even as a start or help? Nope. However, I gave up in December. I had a project that required a lot of writing about flowers, so I used AI to help give me summaries of certain flower families. It proved to be a good start to what I needed. Even though I used it briefly, I saw why so many people in my generation use it. But alongside this, I saw what made AI dangerous.

My Stance on AI’s Use

Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short, is a very complex technology. The coding and machinery required to make AI is brilliant. With its recent rise in popularity, AI is being implemented in more fields and jobs. However, many people are concerned about how it can be used and I find that my specific stance on AI is this: AI should be used to work alongside people; it shouldn’t be a replacement for a person’s work. If AI continues to be the way it is now, it will only serve to impair us.

There is Good and Bad of AI

There are many dangers with AI. One of the biggest concerns is losing human creativity, specifically for people who work in creative fields (art, music, film/games) and writing fields (book writers, researchers, screenwriters).The risk of losing your job to AI is higher than ever. And it raises many ethical issues. For example, people spend their lives creating and making work they are passionate about. Anything from researching science or making art or writing a book. If you take away human creation, what do you gain from that experience? To me, AI prevents the experience of learning to do something. Without that experience of practice and creating, you learn only to make a prompt.

Yet, I know AI has many benefits as well. That is the very reason why I tried it in December. You can have information in seconds. You can brainstorm before writing or see what an idea looks like as an image. With such potential AI can help anyone. And it has through features like autocorrect. It can fix your words in an instant, suggest what to say next, or repeat statements you’ve said previously. Digital assistants like Siri or Alexa are also helpful, asking it to look at things rather than type. These two solve problems that make things easy to fix. And there are so many more you could list. This is what AI can do and they should not be ignored.

What Could be Help

So what could stop the problems that AI currently has? Regulations and legislation. There is an article by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP which shows the current legislation about AI in different states. In the image from their website, 16 states have no AI legislation, and 12 states have only proposed legislation. These laws listed are very limited as well; many are focused on data protection and automated decision-making. These current laws are all helpful, but if there were more legislation protecting people’s work or use of AI in workplaces, many would view AI as less of an ethical issue.

I don’t want to live in a world where AI is the sole creator. I’m studying Interactive Media as my master’s. I’m worried my major is in danger due to how powerful AI is. That fear shouldn’t exist. I have seen both the good and the bad of what AI can do. I don’t think AI should be ignored, rather I find that AI should be used as a benefit to society while also not destroying workplaces. We are meant to better our society, not hurt all the work that made us who we are.