Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has started to have a major impact on society. While some may disagree, AI has been found to positively impact society across many different fields.
One way it can be useful is in an education setting. AI enhances personalized learning by adapting to individual students’ learning needs.
AI also makes education more accessible by helping students with barriers they are faced with. AI can translate content to one’s native language, which breaks the language barrier.
Even for teachers, it can be very helpful as AI can grade students’ tests or assignments effectively. It can also track attendance or create and even optimize schedules.
AI is also producing a significant amount of jobs across the world.
According to the World Economic Forum, some new roles that are being created are AI engineers and developers, ethicists, data scientists and analysts, cybersecurity experts, trainers and system maintenance.
Its power does not only generate new jobs, but can also exceed the standards of current jobs. While AI may take away some jobs, it allows people with some jobs to transition into higher and better jobs.
While training and developing large AI models does require large amounts of computing power, AI researchers are developing energy-efficient algorithms that decrease power usage while they are being developed.
One of the ways energy consumption is being cut down is through renewable energy. According to Google Data Centers, In 2023, Google matched 100% of its global annual electricity consumption with purchases of renewable energy.
Since generative AI is still pretty new, it opens many questions about the ethics of it. Its capabilities are advancing faster than people can keep up. Because of this, it is starting to leak into almost every industry, including healthcare, education, finance, security and more.
AI is affecting millions of lives and has the potential to change them all for the better. Ethical standards are starting to be put in place, as AI can be used for positive and negative purposes. Navigating these purposes is a complex ethical challenge and will take some time.
Many may not realize, but without AI, life would be a lot different. AI has countless positive effects on society and has the potential to improve the world for the better.
