The Good:
Gen AI can:
- Help make science more understandable and approachable for students and the public
- Help students with learning disabilities or gaps in knowledge
- Help students ask questions
- Help reduce language barriers
- Provide a basis for understanding
- Provide writing examples
- Help students find inspiration in research
The bad:
Gen AI can:
- Create “Hallucinations” - Inaccurate, nonsensical, or biased results generated by machine learning that is not humanly discernable
- Lack current information-- ChatGPT only has 2023 data
- Potentially lead to a loss of critical thinking skills
- Potentially be used for plagiarism
The ugly:
“Artificial intelligence makes manifest of bias that have always been there-- our human inability to deal with diversity and complexity.” - Jutta Traviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Center
- Biased data leads to bias decisions
- Those already marginalized and minoritized become further outliers as AI relies on the amplified quantities of information, thus human biases inherent in the data become amplified as well
- Inaccurate data leads to inaccurate results
- “Garbage in, garbage out.”
