Greg Pak calls AI in schools a form of child abuse

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate you having us, allowing us to speak.

My name is Greg Pak.

I am a comic book writer and also a New York City resident.

Had a child go through the public schools, product of public schools myself.

I am here because I believe that AI

in the schools is child abuse.

It is a form of child abuse.

I don't use those terms lightly.

Writing is thinking.

Drawing is seeing.

If you get a kid to type in a prompt and generate text, type in a prompt and generate an image, and you say, good,

You have failed.

In fact, you have denied that child a human experience of thinking and learning and doing stuff.

Kids are not products, and they're not in school to create products.

Kids are in school to learn, to go through the process.

We should be about process, not products.

And...

AI is also a tool of liars, scammers, and fraud.

This is its primary use case.

Having kids use AI in schools sets them up to become losers who can't think for themselves and can't do things and cannot be part of a community.

When a kid draws, a kid has to look at you.

A kid studies your face.

A kid takes note of the world and the people around them.

If you deny a kid that chance by having them just type in a prompt, they learn nothing and they do not participate in a wider community.

AI is child abuse, I'll say it again.

I also just wanted to take note, so I support the AI moratorium in the public schools, and in fact, we should make it, we should just burn all those machines.

I also want to take note of the fact that these,

There's a racism button on these machines, and the billionaires can push that racism button on the machines as they have.

And we don't want that.

Thank you.

Thank you.