Understanding artificial intelligence: use it, don’t abuse it

This year’s freshman class will have the unique opportunity of being the first to go through college with artificial intelligence programs at their fingertips for all four years. As the school year begins, AI is only going to increase its presence in academic conversations. It’s important — not just for the integrity of our education, but for the precarity of our future — that we continue these conversations with an informed understanding of AI: its history, how it works, and ways to use it without abusing it. 

So, what is AI, other than the one thing that everybody’s talking about and that nobody fully understands? Why are worries increasing across the globe about AI redefining sentience, stifling creativity, and fueling false information?

The discourse on AI dates as far back as the 1940s. Alan Turing invented the first computer, a device used to crack the German Enigma code and win World War II. He understood that decoding trillions of permutations every day in order to solve the Enigma code was only possible if a machine was invented that could do something no human was capable of. 

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