Grieving sons of Amin Abdullah, a security guard killed while protecting others at the Islamic Center of San Diego shooting, said he was their hero and ‘best dad to ask for.’ Jibreel, Muhammad and Khaled Abdullah spoke to Reuters about their father https://t.co/X3zIsDwbFK
Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. “When my daughter, who is in sixth grade, begins writing an essay, she gets a prompt: ‘Help me write,’ ” Winter writes. “If she is starting work on a slide-show presentation, the prompt is ‘Help me visualize.’ She shoos away these interruptions, but they persist: ‘Help me edit.’ ‘Beautify this slide.’ ”
Proponents of generative A.I. in elementary and middle schools argue that such early exposure will foster digital-media literacy, and prepare them for a future in which most professions are steeped in A.I. But the technology also poses significant cognitive and social-emotional risks to young people. Read Winter’s report about A.I.’s infiltration into schools—and what it could mean for young minds: https://t.co/xaIqbeGRnl
I know some of y’all don’t give a fuck about anyone but yourselves and your aspirations are to be a revolutionary, but you cannot be a revolutionary if you do not care about the most vulnerable people in your communities.