In today’s society, advanced technology such as artificial intelligence is designed to make human lives easier. What if it makes everyone’s lives too easy?

Throughout schools, specifically at Lakewood High School, I’ve witnessed many students use artificial intelligence websites such as ChatGPT.com and other websites in ways that don’t enhance their learning experiences. If anything, it dumbs down their chance at learning during instructional time.

Instead of using artificial intelligence websites in classrooms to help students with perhaps their most rigorous courses, some students use these websites to fetch immediate solutions and answers to their confusion.

This will then create a lack of critical thinking skills within the students, who constantly rely on using an artificial intelligence website to complete their work. The long-term consumption of not having to think and work towards an assignment in class will slowly but surely begin to impact that student’s efficiency throughout school and immediately on.

Nowadays, students are more focused on passing their classes rather than actually taking the time to sit and understand what is being taught to them. Now, I think this is an understandable take when it comes to particular circumstances, such as a student being required to maintain a certain GPA.

I’m not against the student usage of artificial intelligence websites, more as the decreasing learning that comes with using those websites in a way that doesn’t help students learn. Artificial intelligence websites could be used in ways to stimulate learning. For example, having those websites help out with brainstorming ideas or learning concepts, editing papers, enhancing vocabulary, the list could go on.

It’s all about the way students use artificial intelligence. Since it doesn’t seem like this technology will be going away any time soon, why not use it in a way that stimulates and improves academic success rather than let it slowly begin to rot your brain?