­­In this week’s lecture, we are slated to be discussing AI.

The impact of AI, I think, truly made itself felt in early 2023. Around this time, teachers began to start warning students about the consequences of using AI in our work. It was strictly banned, and anyone who was caught using it was immediately given a failing mark for the assignment. In university, I find it interesting how the attitude has changed. Although professors and instructors aren’t encouraging it, they aren’t outright banning it either. Many professors are still against the use of AI in academic work; however, I’ve had a few professors who are okay with its use if the student edits it and discloses it. And yet, I’ve still had professors and TAs who have caught students using it without disclosing it. I won’t delve too deeply into this topic, as I might write my essay on it, but I think that the current and future implications of AI are interesting. In another class, it was pointed out that we may just be having a moral panic about it. A moral panic is “a mass movement based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behaviour or group of people is dangerously deviant and poses as a threat to society’s values and interests” (Oxford Reference). We’ve seen it happen with books, television, smartphones, games, social media, and now we’re seeing it with AI.   

In other news, it was nice to do another peer review. For myself, it offered me an opportunity to get some feedback from my peers and make some adjustments to my website, and it also gave me the chance to look at a peer’s website and their doings. Looking my peers’ websites helps me get a better understanding of who they are, their experiences are, and what approach they’re using for the class.