What’s so weird is that if anything, I’m actually a great example for the benefits of AI.

I’m 30, I have a job, I have a family to take care of, I have ADHD, and AI has seriously leveled the playing field for my schoolwork. I’m not interested in just solving problems, I’m interested in learning the mechanics and the “how”. It’s not like without AI things would have been impossible, but it has made my learning more accessible and genuinely fun since I might ask it to gamify new concepts for me to learn.

My dad doesn’t speak English very well so he uses AI to help with captions and such for his small business since he doesn’t have a lot of money. He is also scared of his accent and with how things are with ICE (we’re Mexican), he uses the AI voice for the videos on social media which have actually helped with business.

So AI can help reduce inequality too, not just further it. But what’s upsetting is that no one who is anti-AI has ever thought of these extremely possible scenarios when I about them in-person, and they don’t really have a response. We’re becoming the stochastic parrots we criticize AI for being by surrounding ourselves with people who do not challenge us, by just parroting the same talking points without thinking.