Speech written and delivered by 14 -year-old Johnathon Oranebo during Veritas Night Under the Stars fundraiser and talent show on March 7. Johnathon is in the 8th grade.
As a society, we are making huge advances in technology. Technology is the practical application of knowledge in a specific area. Technology means advances in fields like education. However, is technology, especially in Artificial intelligence (AI), an opportunity to improve or an opportunity to be lazy? According to Dan Schwartz, the dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, "Technology is a game-changer for education – it offers the prospect of universal access to high-quality learning experiences, and it creates fundamentally new ways of teaching." One piece of technology that is helping older students, specifically, is ChatGPT. In brief, ChatGPT is an AI chatbot. ChatGPT is AI that has changed the way we do things in just a few years. In education, it's obviously wrong to use technology to write your college essay, and there are security risks involved, but there are still other ethical ways to use it. Using ChatGPT may have security and ethical risks, but it could still be helpful in giving ideas and editing essays for college applications.
Even though ChatGPT could be beneficial, people either ignore it completely or use it to write their essays from start to finish, which is obviously wrong. There is a balance, but people often go to extremes. And there are some security flaws in ChatGPT. One possible flaw is security breaches of vital information. According to Washington State University, "Breaches can result in unauthorized access to sensitive information, including personal data, financial records, or research data." However, if you are careful about the information you put there, then there won't be a problem. According to the Government of Canada, it's common for chatbots to ask for details like your account or order number. However, you should not share sensitive details. So, if you are cautious, ChatGPT can still be of assistance when writing your college application essay.
ChatGPT can certainly assist when writing your essay. One way it could aid your writing is by giving ideas. According to open.edu, "The benefit to this approach is that you get a jumping off point, but you still need to build your own argument and do the critical thinking". The article also went on to say that ChatGPT can be helpful in explaining things that are difficult to understand. Even a teacher wrote about using it on Eschool News by saying, "It can generate references within seconds. Users will have facts, quotes, statistics, and other data to mention in their papers". Even though ChatGPT is good at giving ideas, you still need to make sure what it's saying is true and make sure to cite your sources.
Giving ideas is not ChatGPT's only skill, though; it can also edit essays. When it comes to editing essays, ChatGPT tends to write in its own voice, which Harvard describes as a "generic voice." However, once you have the idea, you can edit it to your voice to make it more unique and more like you. ChatGPT is also an extra set of eyes on your paper. ChatGPT has a skill of saying more with less. According to Brad Schiller, an MIT graduate, "We've found using the language "minimally edit" in your prompt does a decent job of identifying words and phrases you could cut without doing much rewriting. This is especially powerful when you indicate specific things you want ChatGPT to look for as it edits, such as removing unnecessary details or prepositional phrases.” ChatGpt is a very vital and universal editing tool that should be used wisely.
One important reason we should use our tools right is because God told us too in 2 Timothy 2:15 - "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth." ChatGPT may have some security risks, but it can still help in writing college application essays. Chat GPT can help in other ways, too, but you should use it cautiously. We have been given a gift of technology, not only AI but technology in general. We should use it ethically and with honesty.
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