Many people say AI is causing issues. I agree but also think it has its uses. I use it to generate quizzes on various subjects I'm learning about, for instance. I do not particularly support ai, but don't think it should be scraped from the earth's memory. It seems like everyone is on anti ai or support ai side. I am in the middle.

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Many people say AI is causing issues. I agree but also think it has its uses. I use it to generate quizzes on various subjects I'm learning about, for instance. I do not particularly support ai, but don't think it should be scraped from the earth's memory.  It seems like everyone is on anti ai or support ai side. I am in the middle.

Anonymous Practitioner · Accepted Answer

I definitely think AI has its positives and negatives, like most other things in the world. 
I do think generative AI can have negatives impacts, especially environmentally and intellectually. Data centers have been known to use quite a bit of water, and also heavily pollute the air around it (to the point of hospitalization, for some people). And I don't think we should ignore their intentional placement in lower class neighborhoods (that are mostly people of color), either. AI has also had negative impacts on people's brain, and I am scared of people, especially students, relying on it so much. 
But those effects were specifically about generative AI. 
Non-generative AI can do so much good in fields like medicine, or tech in general. I wish more people would understand, or clarify that their strong opposition is specifically for generative AI, and not AI as a whole. AI in general can do great things for us in the future!