Personally I think it would be a disservice to not teach AI on at least a basic level regardless of your stance on the ethics of using AI. Having students understand what AI is capable of and what that could entail for a student’s career and how AI could affect it in the future. AI as it is now is extremely efficient compared to humans, and has to potential to recognize patterns even humans haven’t recognized. An example of this is when an AI developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was able to discover a new antibiotic after a nearly decade long gap between the last antibiotic discovered by a human shows that AI is capable of innovations humans aren’t capable of in the modern day.
Though just because while AI extremely efficient compared to what humans are capable of, it lacks that human connection that often goes into writing an article or generating an image in its current iterations. As a teacher you should teach your students to skilled enough to recognize those flaws in AI whilst adding your own human element to what the AI generated, is something that every student should be taught to do. To not only recognize articles written by AI, but to fact check any misinformation or “hallucinations” the AI may have about a specific topic. Since with career paths such as Lawyers require their briefs to not only be accurate in order to not show misinformation about who their defending, but to ensure that at least in the case with lawyer Steven Schwartz to properly represent any court cases that the AI may reference in it’s debriefing would have to be correct otherwise it wouldn’t be a valid debriefing. As a teacher you should strive to have your students learn to use AI as an assistant to their own work, but to not completely rely on it ensuring that AI is a tool for others to use, but not a complete replacement for human innovation.
Paul Manning has an article discussing the negatives of AI and how that could affect teaching linked here: