Minnehaha Academy Teacher’s Options on AI
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping many things in society, and it’s had a significant impact on students’ choices in their future careers. Students tend to go towards jobs that use uniquely human qualities such as creativity, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking. Minnehaha Academy teachers think AI will only partially take over STEM and English jobs, which are the main jobs Minnehaha students tend to major in college. AI cannot do any of those.
As AI continues to advance, it can become capable of handling complex tasks that were originally made for human workers. Zildjian Meyer, AP computer science teacher at Minnehaha. Computer science is a form of AI, computer science created AI.
“I don’t think AI can ever completely take over jobs in computer science because AI can’t make AI,” said Meyer. “AI could take over jobs that include working with already man-made code but it can’t make new ones.
“AI can’t have emotions, AI can’t code emotion so jobs where the human soul is needed, humans will still have to do that,” said Meyer. Machines with advanced algorithms and machine-learning capabilities can analyze vast amounts of data. AI can also make fast decisions and execute tasks faster and more accurately than humans.
AI in science is very beneficial because it can do things way faster than humans it also can get stuff done faster. Chemistry teacher Naomi Diller pointed out that AI will be very important in medicine.
“Now that scientists know about genetics and things like that, AI can be used in medicine to personalize it to a person depending on their genetics. Humans would never have the time to do that for every person,”. Dillner explains how AI follows patterns, once humans make a pattern AI can continually do it and not be tired. AI works almost 125,000 times faster than the human brain. AI could calculate chemical formulas over and over again.
But it’s important to remember that AI is only as smart as the internet. AI follows whatever the internet does/says, it follows the person who made the code. The internet isn’t always right, which means AI isn’t always right. We will always need scientists to make sure things are right. The jobs that are risked are centered around manual and repetitive tasks and jobs that humans aren’t doing fast enough.
According to Ms. Felton, an English teacher for 10th or 11th-grade students, AI could never take over literature as a whole.
“Literature needs the soul, it needs human emotion which AI cannot provide,” she said. “The creativity that some people’s brains have is unmatched by what AI can do. However it can be a wonderful tool to use when writing for editing or grammar, maybe even more starting ideas. More than that it is useless.”
While AI brings tremendous benefits and is a very helpful tool it cannot take over all jobs where human emotion or judgment is necessary. This shows that students shouldn’t worry about their choice of careers because we will always need humans for most jobs. Students shouldn’t worry as long as they choose the right major.