Is AI doing more good for today’s generation or more harm than good? Well, with AI advancing in today’s society, it’s been easier to get information quickly with 99% percent accuracy, however, what does this mean for the future? Is the overuse of AI really worth the use?

Well, AI is a useful tool that can be used. It’s been hurting our planet. Every person using ChatGPT is using up 15 bottles of water. For ChatGPT to get the best possible answer, it runs in physical data centers to keep the data servers from overheating and water to cool the equipment. If millions of people use AI, what does this mean for us?

The creator of OpenAI walks around with a backpack with a kill switch inside it to kill AI. 

With the fear that AI could gain consciousness and harm the world. This is quite disturbing, knowing that some of the most innovative AI scientists in the world have also warned the world about AI, saying they are losing the ability to understand AI. As AI gets more powerful, it may be possible for AI to do things on its own without anyone asking, like making a new and faster language or lying for no reason. AI has even sent some people into psychosis and helped a young man to kill himself after being asked over and over to help him with his death. AI has even become so realistic that it messes with humans’ fabric of reality.

Chat-GPT could end critical thinking skills, making AI smarter and humans dumber. The use of AI plummeted after school ended, but skyrocketed around back-to-school time. That’s because so many students use AI for homework and essays. If we keep asking AI to do basic things to help us think, eventually, won’t we lose the ability to think for ourselves? AI is destroying our way of creativity. We are also looking at AI potentially taking people’s future jobs like artists, editors, voice actors, animators, and maybe even making a simple cup of coffee. Every time we ask AI questions about school work or students studying for a career path, they are making AI smarter. This means we are looking at AI taking over college degree-level jobs. I wouldn’t leave AI running the world, controlling humans. 

Although AI is an excellent tool for quick and fast answers, is it worth destroying the planet we live on, wasting the water we drink, and compromising how we think? I think the use of AI should go down a lot, or even stop altogether, for the sake of future generations and the generations now.