Every Student Needs to Watch This Before Studying with AI
Summary
This video provides essential guidance for students on how to responsibly use AI in their studies, covering cognitive benefits and risks, ethical considerations, and environmental impact. It is highly useful for educators seeking to prepare students for effective and ethical AI use, as well as for school leaders looking for AI ethics curriculum and training.
Description
This is everything I wish someone had told me about study with AI, from the cognitive benefits and risks, to the environmental concerns and ethical tensions. This video is fact-checked and verified by The Big AI Project, Global Student Forum at the Good Future Foundation, a UK Charity supporting sustainable AI Adoption in schools. Sign your school up for FREE AI ethics curriculum. Training for headteachers here: https://bigeducation.org/events/ The Good Future Foundation: https://www.goodfuture.foundation/ I hope this video gives you more nuance to be mindful about your use of AI. What tasks are you using it for? Why? How can you prevent cognitive offloading by struggling through a problem yourself first? How can you sit with the ethical tensions involved in AI to come to a conclusion that feels right for you? 00:00 How Students Are Using AI Now: Does it work? 1:34 Your opinion on AI is valid 3:15 Cognitive Offloading: Don’t Use AI Too Much Or it Makes you Dumber! 4:31 Science Proves AI Use Makes You Remember Less 6:01 Cognitive Risk: Accepting Misinformation 6:30 Only This Prevents Cognitive Risks (Information Literacy!) 7:03 Cognitive Benefits: How to use AI to make you smarter 8:08 Environmental Ethics of using AI: Water & Energy Usage 11:31 Quiz: Which uses more energy? 12:08 Should we be supporting AI companies? Power and Billionaires 13:54 Creativity: Can AI Actually help you be Creative? 14:59 Employability: You Need AI Proficiency for the World of Work 15:55 Equity: Digital and Gender Divide in AI Use 17:28 The holistic picture! Should you use AI as a student? Some of the infinite sources in this video: - BBC Bitesize AI sustainability comparisons: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zs97cxs - Ahmed S, Rasul ME. Examining the association between social media fatigue, cognitive ability, narcissism and misinformation sharing: cross-national evidence from eight countries. Sci Rep. 2023 Sep 18;13(1):15416. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-42614-z. PMID: 37723265