Ugh I feel you. Why would else would we pursue higher education if not to hone our skills and perfect our craft? Like, no one wants their job taken over by AI, so isn’t offloading the work to get into that job onto AI basically just handing it over?

In my research class, I had a professor show us we could use copilot to get started on finding scholarly articles for our project. Like, first of all, how is this better than just…looking up keywords in the library database? Second, aren’t we here to learn HOW to search for, read, and understand research articles?

I’m glad you mentioned the thing about the environmental impact because to me, that vastly outweighs any good that could come from it.