De La Rosa questions student panel on classmate views about AI

Thank you so much.

I have a couple questions.

Any of you can answer this.

But, you know, I often, I think there's sort of like an assumption that, you know, kids will do whatever to, like, make the work as easy as possible, right?

If there's, like, a chatbot available, they're just asking, right?

Is it your...

Feeling that your views, that you don't want AI in the classroom because you know how important critical thinking is, that's been your general, you want more transparency and accountability.

Do you think that's the view of most of your classmates, even the ones who use AI in the classroom?

I think like to understand the issue a lot of time as we are not adults a lot of time it's not necessarily I'm not being weird but not necessarily always important to

do whatever we want to do definitely it's going to make our works easier definitely it's going to maybe

make us less think about it but what's the whole purpose of education is the main question so if we do really want to learn or make ourselves smart or want to

critical think then we would definitely need a process of education where we need to think about something before answering, not necessarily a bot telling us or

doing works for us, because at the end of the day, that is definitely not good for us under any circumstances, because first of all, it basically lacks all the opportunities for us to learn anything.

The whole purpose is learning.

So definitely there must be some students, of course, who wants, not a lot of people, because people who genuinely cares about their future or wants to learn would not.

Follows such kind of things or would do.

But most of the students, whenever I talk with my peers, and as I also mentioned that we had a conference about talking about issues like that, people absolutely hate AI, no matter how much they,

Some people might say that they like it, but they do not like it.

They understand that how this is also impacting the environment in many different ways.

Yeah, I believe also at my school is very uncommon.

I don't think I notice anyone using AI, especially, which in general, especially for like the writing and the art that's being done.

Because I feel like when we're writing, like for example, my playwriting class, like this is art that people have.

want to be creative about and they want to share to their class, they want to feel proud of it.

Some of it could be connected to maybe issues that they feel, you know, that they care a lot about or personal experiences and it would just be, it would feel so hollow to, for example, use AI for that.

Or in my classes, you know, we have these class discussions a lot.

My school's a consortium school, so that's probably why, right?

If you're using AI to write something, I don't think you're going to be having a very compelling, let's say, defense of your opinions or your ideas, and you're not probably going to be able to engage very well in the conversation.

It's going to be boring.

And I think students like being able to share their views on various issues and back it up with their own ideas and with their own evidence.

Thank you so much to this panel.

I appreciate your testimony today.

Are there any other students in the room that want to testify?

And you filled out a slip?

Okay, so this panel is dismissed.

You can go back to your seats.

I want to thank you.

Thank you.

And you guys can come up.

I'm just going to need to know what you're doing.

Yeah.

Students, come on up.

It almost reminds me of, like the AI technology is pretty tempting.

It's like very tempting.

It almost reminds me of social media.

Like students, they want to be on social media, but I spoke to a lot of students who were so happy when they banned the phones because it takes it away from them because they want to be engaged with their friends.

So are you, are you,

12 to a student.

Are you testifying?

In the back row?

No?

Okay, just you.

Okay.

You're the only student.

Okay, please state your name for the record and you may begin your testimony.