Conversation Club: How does AI Affect us all?!

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This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about Artificial Intelligence, or AI!

A.I. is one of the latest technologies to become extremely popular around the world. It is used by governments, by businesses and by ordinary people, but what is AI?

You have probably heard of ChatGPT, a popularly AI chat bot, that uses data from the internet to answer questions or prompts that you give it, it uses data collected to imitate what a person might say.

Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about how AI might affect us all!

Conversation Questions: How Does AI Affect Us All?

1. Have you ever used AI, if not, would you use it?

2. What are the benefits of this technology?

3. Do you think this technology is safe to use?

4. Should AI be made free for anyone to use?

5.Who should regulate this technology?

6.What can AI do better than humans, what can’t it do better?

7. Which professions will be most affected by AI, which will not be affected?

8. How will this technology change in the future?

9.What do you think of art made by AI? Should we see it as ‘real art’?

10. “AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.”

– Oren Etzioni

How much do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Vocabulary List:

Benefit
- a helpful or good effect, or something intended to help.
Regulate
- to control something, especially by making it work in a particular way.
Profession
- any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill, often one that is respected because it involves a high level of education.
Affect
- to have an influence on someone or something, or to cause a change in someone or something.
Deploy
- to use something or someone, especially in an effective way.