Student Arunamid Misha on critical thinking and human teachers
Arunamid Misha, a rising junior, describes student opposition to AI policies from a weekend event with hundreds of students. She argues AI takes away critical thinking skills, that students want human teachers not AI bots for feedback, and that AI bots create unrealistic perfectionist expectations that destroy student confidence.
Thank you so much.
Hello, Chair Dinowitz and Chair De La Rosa and members and staff of the Committees on Education and Technology.
My name is Arunamid Misha.
I'm a rising junior at the Institute for Collaborative Education and a member of the Teen Activist Project at Night Blue.
This spring, I helped plan a weekend event with hundreds of students to listen to their concerns about AI guidance.
And there was a very specific session about AI in that entire ceremony.
And that conversation about AI went so far and so much that it went over time.
And even after the session, we could not stop talking.
About how much we absolutely hate that policy idea.
And critical thinking is the whole purpose of our education.
That's why we get degrees and everything.
But AI is completely taking our skill of critical thinking because they're not letting us work.
So what's the purpose of education if AI is helping us to critical think in some ways?
And also as students, we want real human teachers to teach us.
And we want real human teachers to give us feedbacks about how to improve our work, not AI.
And also by reading our hard-worked assignments, because we worked hard for all those assignments every single day, and to get to know how we think and how we do our works as a human student.
So as a human student, we want human teachers.
However, for many students today, they instead use AI bots, which tells them how to improve their works.
And these AI bots are so insanely perfectionist, they keep saying the students again and again to fix their work again and again until infinity, and this makes the students lose all the confidence over their own work, which is really very bad.
AI Pulse, at the end of the day, pushes us into a fake and unrealistic world.
We do not want a robotic policy in this already robotic world.
And also for this reason, I have hundreds of students who care would like to request you to push DOE to make a policy dependent on humans rather than AI.
Because rearranging a system after AI is going to destroy it is going to be possible.
But the lives which is going to be destroyed after these processes cannot ever be fixed.
Thank you so much.
You timed that really well.
That's perfect.
Thank you.