Lesson AMF-7

Welcome! Please consider how your attitude affects your and other students' experiences of the lesson. 

Be respectful, come prepared, and show interest to have the best possible educational experience. 

⏰ ~10 minutes

👥 By yourself

🎯 Pay attention to repetitive language, sentence structure, if it is smoothly connected, and the tone

✏️ Read the essay

To the Future

If you're reading this AI is probably a part of your everyday life because  for us in these early days it's both exciting and terrifying because AI is like starting to become a big thing. We're only now beginning to glimpse its potential and its dangers too as ome people here are really hyped about AI and they think it'll solve all our problems. They imagine robots doing all the crummy jobs, and everyone else just chilling. They see it as a future paradise. This is maybe good, right? But others? They're totally freaked out. They worry about AI taking all the jobs, like in the 2024 Forbes article Hype Or Reality: Will AI Really Take Over Your Job? What happens when people can't earn a living? Also, they're really scared about these AI becoming too smart. They worry they will decide humans are completely useless, and maybe even get rid of us! This is bad. 

The truth, as usual, is probably somewhere in the messy middle. AI will definitely change things and it will make some work disappear and it will create new jobs and we know that much but but ye hope is that we're smart enough to use it responsibly and we need to make sure it benefits everyone, not just a few powerful companies because we also have to be careful about its development as it shouldn't be allowed to run wild because we need to keep it under control. Looking at things now, it's pretty obvious we need to teach kids about AI because hey need to understand how it works, and how to use it without hurting others or themselves because if they understand this stuff, they will be more prepared for the future  and your future and we hope we can do this properly before it is too late. So, is AI good or bad? Honestly, we really don't know but it's something we really need to think about, like a lot. It is vital to protect our future, for ourselves, but now for you too. We are making decisions now that will affect you.

Hopefully, we made the right ones.

(345 words)