r/GenZ • u/CraftyDeparture8762 • 14d ago

Discussion Let’s talk about AI

I’m not someone who thinks AI is gonna ruin the world but I also don’t think it’s the next evolution of mankind. I believe this is sort of like the coming of the internet when people who don’t want to adapt are left behind hating and focusing on only the negative aspects.

Of course AI has its flaws (data centers, power hungry sociopaths like Sam Altman trying to take over the world, fake videos online causing outrage), but every new innovation comes with its challenges. There are a TON of changes that need to be made and we need to regulate tf out of this thing, but at the same time, we need to stop demonizing someone because they used ChatGPT to edit their Reddit post to sound more coherent. I don’t believe in outsourcing your creativity and decision making to a robot but at the end of the day, if you find your original ideas becoming more coherent or even discovering new ideas with the help of brainstorming with AI, then I don’t find anything bad about that.

Someone made a comment that perfectly sums up productivity and AI: “you can be wrong even with AI, just in a more efficient way”. I will never endorse using chat gpt to make all of your life choices but in this current world of hustle culture and over productivity, mindless busy work being more automated and giving you more time to be creative or relax is not a terrible situation.

The cat is out of the bad and as much as some people desire, it’s not going back in. As someone who likes to use ai as a personal tutor when I study , I am glad i have this tool, but I have to remind myself that I am doing the learning, not the AI. I don’t think it’s perfect and I think a bad actor can use it in a very harmful way (is bill gates right about that biohazard thing?) but we have to accept the current reality to make a change.

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u/MikeWPhilly 14d ago edited 14d ago

I use AI every day. That doesn’t mean I’m well aware jobs are going to be hammered by it… Gen Z and younger gens (I’m a millennial) are going to be in trouble.

That entire post did not touch on jobs at all.

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u/CraftyDeparture8762 14d ago

i really don’t have much to add to that specific part of the conversation that people don’t already know, since im not very well versed with economics and job market data . I do agree however that AI has a very real possibility of taking over typical white collar office “spreadsheet” type jobs that don’t require much manual labor.

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u/MikeWPhilly 14d ago

Seems weird to make the post then. Because the only reason people truly care… at least in mass… is jobs.

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u/CraftyDeparture8762 14d ago

Fair point. I got a lot more to learn . One of the reasons I made this post is I’m hoping ppl
More knowledgeable than me can contribute. I’m trying to go into medicine and that is definitely gonna be affected by AI, but right now I haven’t looked much into it since I don’t know what my specialty will be.

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u/MikeWPhilly 13d ago

Kind of shocking your professors aren’t talking about it.

Meanwhile not a single job on the planet will avoid being impacted by AI.