Artificial Intelligence programs are on the brink of making major changes to the way we live and work. They seem set to revolutionise society, and it could be for good or for bad. It is important for everyone to understand the ramifications and makes a good essay topic for English, or as a debating topic. Here are some possible discussion topics to start with:

• AIs will soon replace lawyers, accountants and doctors
• Artificial Intelligence is not intelligent
• AIs are biased
• AIs cannot be trusted
• AIs must be able to explain their decisions
• The consequences to society of AIs being able to write well are great.
• An AI Revolution is upon us similar to the Industrial Revolution
• …

Our CS4FN take on Chatbots

• Chatbots and Natural Language Processing
• Bias in Computing

AI News articles

Below are some examples of ChatBots in the news to use as background. Note these are currently biased towards more family friendly stories avoiding bleaker articles as was created for a family science festival.

AI Pratfalls and Problems

OpenAI Hit With First Defamation Suit Over ChatGPT Hallucination (7 June 2023) Bloomberg Law

A lawyer got ChatGPT to do his research, but he isn’t AI’s biggest fool (3 June 2023) The Guardian

A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled (16 February 2023) New York Times

AI should be licensed like medicines or nuclear power, Labour suggests (5 June 2023) The Guardian

Google and Facebook urged by EU to label AI-generated content (5 June 2023) The Guardian

Lost Jobs?

ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners (2 June 2023) Washington Post

Writers Guild of America Considers Letting AI Write Hollywood Scripts (23 March 2023) Gizmodo

‘The rich get richer and the first use of AI is to put people out of their jobs‘ (20 May 2023) The Mirror

Dr MANSOOr ahmed-RENGERS A.I. is not all bad — like the internet it will cost jobs as well as create them, but we must watch it like a hawk (19 May 2023) The Sun

Mirror and Express owner publishes first articles written using AI (7 March 2023) The Guardian

Positive?

Apple CEO Tim Cook is among the millions of users of ChatGPT—and he says he is ‘excited about it’ (7 June 2023) Fortune

Pictures: 6 of the best vineyards to visit in Sussex, according to ChatGPT (7 June 2023) Sussex Express

5 ChatGPT Hacks That Will Make Your Job Search So Much Easier (7 June 2023) The Every Girl

3 ways to use ChatGPT to help students learn – and not cheat (6 June 2023) The Conversation

Money expert reveals how you can use ChatGPT for personal finances (17 May 2023) Metro

ChatGPT Could Help Save Your Life (7 June 2023) Newsweek

ChatGPT: New AI chatbot has everyone talking to it (7 December 2022) BBC News

Six tips for better coding with ChatGPT (5 June 2023) Nature

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s GPT-4 tool (6 June 2023) Science Focus

Alexis Mac Allister chant: ChatGPT creates new one for Liverpool fans – it’s a banger (7 June 2023) Give Me Sport

Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Top 14 Uses Of ChatGPT In Medicine And Wellness (2 March 2023) Forbes

My week with ChatGPT: can it make me a healthier, happier, more productive person? (6 April 2023) The Guardian

Amazon plans to rework Alexa in the age of ChatGPT (4 May 2023) The Verge
Amazon’s plan to make more money from Alexa could lean into more generalized large language models like the ones behind ChatGPT and Bard.

NHS: The Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award (No date given) NHS

No longer science fiction, AI and robotics are transforming healthcare (No date given) PWC

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