Robots vs. San Dimas High School

From recreating celebrity voices to make them rap to Ice Spice songs to generating images of our former president Donald Trump being arrested, A.I. technology is constantly evolving and is now beginning to mesh reality with automation. 

Movies like Ex Machina and Megan, two movies that although exist on vastly different sides of the robot scale of movies, are both good examples of the complexity of artificial intelligence integrating into society as a replacement to human interaction and now, education.  The internet itself has been up for debate about whether or not student’s access to unlimited online resources hinder their ability to take on educational information within their school.  Questions arise: do robots have the potential to become sentient and end up taking over the world?  Or will A.I. exist simply just to make silly pictures and write “kind of good”, “sort of bad” English essays?  Who’s better to ask about the robot revolution than San Dimas High School’s very own Himal Milak; former prom king, computer science enthusiast, and robot connoisseur. 

Himal describes A.I. as being “a system that humans created in order to make our life easier.  It could be comparable to the way we used machinery in the Industrial Revolution; we use robots to replace us without us even having to think about it.”  He points out that there are certain ups and downs to utilizing A.I. technology in one’s everyday life and that society has to be wary about how much of their life they’re willing to let robots take over for them.  “If we’re not being responsible with our access to this kind of technology, we are actually just going to be degenerating in society.  If we give robots all of this information to hold so that we as humans don’t have to hold it, where would we be without them?  We would be lost and know nothing and the robots will know everything.”

Robots have existed for the purpose of bringing ease into a difficult world such as our own.  But, there has to be a constant awareness and vigilance over it’s effects on the quality of work, agency, and most importantly, education.  It’s safe to say that San Dimas High School is far away from being taken over by robots just as long as we’re careful… Maybe.