Ryan Knudson
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And do you think it's making, I mean, is it going to replace the radiologists or is it just making them sharper?
And you also wrote that you think that if this technology had been around when your mom was going through this, it could have actually saved her a significant amount of what turned out to be potentially unnecessary treatment.
Looking back at those.
Looking back at those.
After the break, Joanna Stern on her biggest fears about AI.
One area of transformation that's really profound and a little bit concerning is what it's doing to homework.
You enrolled in a college course and had AI do your work for you.
How good was it?
The thing that's so concerning about it though is this idea that you write about like, if you're letting AI think for you, there's the atrophy of cognition.
How big of a problem do you think that is going to be if we have a generation of students that are outsourcing the hard work of thinking and the learning that comes from that process?
one of the takeaways that I had from reading your book that I was kind of startled by is the things that AI is really bad at, like chores and laundry and stuff like that, that's what I want it to do, but the thing that it's really good at that I don't want it to do is writing.
You talked to this student who, and a lot of students will say things like this, that that's one area that they don't let it actually write the essay.
But it takes, and you also didn't let AI write your book, but it takes
fortitude and will.
You have to make a decision to not let it do the thing that it's good at while it's also sucking at the stuff that we want it to be good at.
So you have an eight-year-old and a four-year-old, right?
I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old.
And so I think a lot about how this technology is going to transform their lives.
After you went through this year, have you thought about limits that you're going to set for them or areas that you're going to encourage them?
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