chatgpt – Katherine Reilly

Let’s be real here. The vast majority of social media posts, emails, and articles supposedly written by conscious human beings have flooded the network. Call it convenience – dare I say laziness – but the issue at hand is not ownership itself. Rather, it is the unprecedented reformatting and rewiring of our brains. Constant exposure and temptation are to blame; however, the true perpetrators are we the users.

“Quite the bold statement, dear author. How dare you accuse us of such misdemeanours. The audacity!”

The truth hurts, doesn’t it? The focus of my argument is that even if you did actually formulate a piece of writing, unbeknownst to you, your writing endeavours have been altered to such a degree, they lack any visible trait of human emotion or gradual development, and is instead strictly presented in binary contrasts.

by Katherine Reilly, originally published in ELT NEWS

Perhaps one of the most controversial topics I have ever been called upon to examine is that of the thinking machine. The dominant fear amongst skeptics is one of an artificial takeover via physical altercations, of technology over man. The imagery of science fiction may flood our minds; graphic depictions such as those featured in the popular Terminator film franchise, in which a dystopian future was brought about by our dependence on an entity of our own creation. Look no further fellow educators, for the future is dawning upon us. Whether we realize it or not, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already paved the way to restructuring our lives and the course of events that will follow. No, we are not referring to the potential physical dominance by AI, but rather our compliant cognitive subjugation to it.