EP 327: How AI is Changing the Lives of High School Students

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Thank you so much for having us to introduce ourselves. My name is Arman. Thank you. I'm a rising senior at the Mass Academy of Math and Science at WPI and I'm interested in pursuing computer and cognitive science. And in my free time I like to draw and play a lot of Tetris.

Love to see it. Vasu, how about you?

Yeah, my name is Vasu. I'm also a rising senior at the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at wpi and in my free time I like to play video games and I also like to read. And in the future I'd like to look at the interdisciplinary field of AI and economics.

I love it. Vasu, maybe let's start with you. You know, let's start just big picture here and then we'll kind of walk our way through it. But let's just start at the end. How is AI changing the lives of high school students right now?

I mean it's really drastic. So inside the classroom it varies from school to school. But from my personal experiences I've seen teachers who ban AI completely to all the way to encouraging students to use AI. And there's also some teachers in the middle as well encouraging students to use AI in some parts of their assignments but not others. And this also varies drastically from class to class. So specifically in humanities, which is one of the classes we take where we studied the interdisciplinary field of history and English, we were able to see how we used AI to generate text but alongside that compared that with our personal writing. Using AI as a tool to not only elevate our writing but but also analyze it further.

Armand, what about you? How like how would you just described what AI is like now for high school students and how it's changing and impacting your lives.

Actually like I think in like November 2022, like what happened with ChatGPT, like in the November of my sophomore year, it kind of dropped like a bombshell. So Like, a lot of things changed with like, with the release of generative AI and large language models out to the public. And this was seen in both students and the teachers. So we had some teachers who were completely against it because we had a lot of writing assignments in my previous school. And there were some teachers that you even made curriculums and tests based off of it. One notable example, I think was one of our teachers. He taught religion. And basically for his tests, what he had us do is we had every single student come up with a couple of questions and he used those questions, those multiple choice questions to put together a whole test for everyone. And I think like earlier we had, we had to do them all manually. We kind of had to like, look into it a little bit, research, do some like, reading of the Bible. But after that, with the release of ChatGPT, like everyone healed, just kind of like GPT questions. And as a result, like all the tests were like GPT as well. And that kind of like, it was a pretty funny experience. But as Vasu said, it kind of ranges widely. Like some teachers are pretty stringent on not using AI versus some that only like actively encourage it.

So. So at least at your school right now, is, is there a kind of total AI policy or does it just kind of vary, you know, classroom to classroom?

I'd say it kind of varies classroom to classroom because like, in some classes, like for example, like physics and math, like you can use AI, but like the level of problem solving that we kind of do is I would say like somewhat beyond it. Like I know for a fact that like on like physics homeworks and like math homeworks and like we do like a lot of competition math, so it's a little bit more abstract. So but like, I, I know I've like tried to use like CHAT GPT or like Gemini and sometimes like meta AI, and that hasn't really worked out too well for me. So I'd say like some classes, like, I don't even know if it is like that helpful. But then there's others that like, it's like completely invaluable for.

Basu. How would you say that this, you know, even within your own school? I mean, is that challenging where, you know, maybe some classes might say, oh, you can't use chatgpt or other AI. Some classes it sounds like at your school are encouraging. And I'm guessing then there's some that are just like, ah, you know, no one's really asking, you know, and there's not really a policy. How does that Impact, you know, your just ability to either kind of like go all in and learn alongside with AI, versus like, oh, should I be using this at every step of the way? How does that kind of, you know, inconsistency, I guess, impact your learning?

Yeah, 100%. So from my perspective, I think that, and this is my personal opinion, the future of AI is truly integrating it within our schools to help elevate the quality of it. But I definitely say that it varies from class to class in the sense that teachers have different policies towards AI, which becomes very confusing. So for example, in our foreign language classes, we're not allowed to use them at all. Whereas compared to that inside our humanities classes, we are. So this could be really confusing to students in a various amount of manners. But specifically, it's really important to look at each assignment and realize what level of AI you can use. But that also varies from assignment to assignment. So I really think the future of AI, and especially probably at our school would be to integrate it more and more, because AI is in the future and it will always be impactful.

Armand, how would you say, you know, because you guys are actually in a, in a nice position here, right? Because you, you had a year, you know, a year or two, you know, of school at the high school level before generative AI, you know, really boomed, and now you've had a year or two after. How for you personally has having all of these large language models impacted your learning? Is it all good? Are there some downsides to it? How has it impacted overall your high school journey? Can you talk to it from kind of both sides?

Sure. So on like one hand, I'd say it's made it a lot like significantly, significantly easier. I know in like freshman year, like this was before, like, like ChatGPT was like, like available and really popular. Well, I had to like write like essays for all my classes. Like, like one that was like the had like really tough essays was history class. I'd say. Cause we had to like write a lot of more like a lot like more argumentative and like, and position taking papers. And then for those like, I'd say, like, I'm kind of a perfectionist in terms of like my wording and my writing and my sentence structure. So I used to spend like hours and hours on end just like perfecting like a single paragraph because like, I just like wasn't sure what to do with wording and what words to use and how to make it sound coherent and like aesthetic. And I'd say like after GPT released I, I, this is, like, completely changed that whole process, especially with, like, picking out words like word choice and like, and, and wording has been like, the biggest aspect of language models and helping my writing, I'd say, because, like, after, like, after that, I had a different history class with the same teacher after, and my writing didn't change that much, but it took, like, significantly less time to write. And I'd say that, for a fact, has, like, definitely helped me out on the other side of that. I, I think one of the main risks of GPT and other generative AI models is that it kind of might eliminate the need for people to think at a higher level, because if you have a model doing all the thinking for you, it was good for us, since we did have a little bit of experience just doing stuff on our own before that. But, for example, if you were using GPT all throughout this entire process, I could see how you might not have to learn how to think as much like a higher level and GPT and kind of do your thinking for you.

Yeah, and that's, that's huge. Right. And I want to dig down a little bit on this. Vasu, what are your thoughts on this, on, you know, generative AI, you know, and whether people realize this or not? Right. And I'll make these arguments until I'm blue in the face, like, yes, large language models can be creative, they can be strategic, they can serve as a consultant, but, you know, they can also do a lot of that thinking for you. Vasu, can you talk a little bit about that? Right. Are you having problems maybe, or struggling to still, you know, think as a human?

Right.

And to learn and to analyze critically as a human. Do you find yourself giving that to large language models a little too much, or have you been able to find kind of a nice balance?

Yeah, I think it's like you mentioned how Armand and I were in a very nice position because we had about eight years of education where we didn't have generative AI. But I could definitely see how for elementary school students or even middle school students now, how it could really change how they use AI in the future of the classroom. So as these high school classes begin to adapt alongside how students use or rather misuse AI, it will definitely have a major impact on the schooling system as a whole. But inside my experience, I'd say that AI has definitely played a crucial role inside, really changing how I think. So for mundane tasks, I might distribute that to AI, whereas for more creative tasks, I always try to prioritize my creativity but if there's ever a time period where I might not know what to do, I might just send a general prompt to AI and I typically get really good answers back. So it's definitely changing how creativity is working inside our society, especially from the differentiability between humans and AI in terms of creativity as well.

Let's talk about the bigger implications here. I've talked about this many times before on the Everyday AI show. I've had a couple of students, I've had teachers, teachers, I've had educators who turned into consultants. How should higher education in and even, you know, high schools throughout the country be handling generative AI? Because it seems like, you know, there's really not a lot of guidance from a federal level, there's not a lot of guidance from a state level. So it does seem like most districts or individual schools or even individual classrooms have to figure it out for, for themselves. Armand, like what? You know, when we look at the future of education when it comes to artificial intelligence, what kind of gets your mind spinning on, on ways that this could go?

I think that's a great question. It's one that's really complex and really difficult to answer. I think the number one thing that we can do is kind of work with the progress of AI because I know like some teachers are like kind of ban it and say that we shouldn't be using it at all. Like there's no way you can use it. But like the, the I think the harsh reality is that AI is like here and it's here to stay and it'll be continuing to develop, to develop and get even better. And instead of like ignoring that, I think the best thing we can do is kind of work with it and see how we can like integrate it more into our classrooms while still like maintaining that level of thought that encourages people to learn how to learn, which is the number one part of education, in my opinion. So I think like we talked about this a little bit in class, but like we thought about potentially how it could result. And instead of having more like writing assignments that are open ended and have kids like do it on their own, we could have writing assignments that are in class and time so that it's completely based on like how you can perform with just your own thought on pen and paper. But at the same time, like, I'm not entirely sure how reflective that is of someone's writing style because I know for like, even, even before generative AI, I know like, I would have definitely written a higher quality like product if I spent Time on it, like outside of just school and outside of like the classroom. And another thing that we talked about that was kind of important was integrating creative choice. Like as Vasu mentioned, like something that AI may not entirely be able to replicate for humans is that creative aspect. So having more choice in writing assignments and having like more open ended, open ended prompts could result in and I guess like a more, a more creative process.

Yeah, that's great. Very, very thoughtful response there, Vasu. So picking up on what Armand said, like, should schools be going back to this, you know, oh, you know, learning is going to happen only in the classroom, pen and paper timed. Or might it be like, okay, let's all use generative AI but use it in the classroom and time, like, how do you see that shaking out? Because I get that there's no maybe right or wrong answer, but how might you see the future of education shaping out as generative AI increasingly gets more and more popular?

Yeah, I think that. So I recently read a book, it's called CO Intelligence and it's Living with and Working With AI by Professor Malik from Upenn Wharton. And I think he sums it up really well. He draws a parallel to the time that they introduced calculators in schools. So initially it was really a similar response where teachers were saying no calculators at all. But if you look at a high school, middle school and even early elementary school classes, calculators are not only involved but also encouraged as you get higher classes. And I think it's going to be similar with AI inside the near future where we start to really adapt and integrate it into our lifestyles because it's here to stay, as Armand mentioned. And by having students really practice it inside school, we can learn how not only to use it responsibly, but also use it inside a productive manner to not only have human and AI thought, but really bolster human thought through AI, which is definitely something that's here to stay and also here to grow.

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I think the first thing is to enforce communication because I think the best way to kind of get a gauge on how you should be using AI is to ask the students first. Because I think while they may just say that yes, we should use AI for everything, why even do stuff? They also have, I know at least for us, we have a sense of responsibility with it because we had a class called STEM and Scientific Writing where what our teacher did was he kind of created an open policy where he asked us how we think we should be using AI. And then from there we were able to come up with a couple of points. For example, we only use AI for summarization. We don't use AI for actually writing our papers. And I think just like asking the students and getting engaged on that would be like a first step. And beyond high school, another crucial stage for us right now is college and college essays. I think that is something that generative AI could definitely drastically impact because I guess if you have all these tools available to you, it's kind of harder for colleges to gauge how good of a writer you are because it may not necessarily be your writing. And with that, like I've heard that they've like placed less emphasis on the essays, but I think that also, like, wouldn't be the right step to take because then the essays are the only way you can really get to, like, communicate with that person and get them. Get to know them on, like, a personal level. So I think, like, that is also something that should definitely be paid attention to in the near future.

Vasu, what are your thoughts on that? Yeah, like, a big part of, you know, higher education in general is, Is that college selection process, right? So you have your. Your standardized testing, which probably won't be impacted too much, considering that's usually all right, you know, pen and pencil, you know, you're not, you know, whipping out a, you know, large language model to help you with that, but a big part of it is writing, right? It's. It's writing, you know, those college essays, and, you know, that's a big part of someone's future. How should schools be handling this? And how even are you personally handling this and finding that, again, finding that balance?

Yeah, I think it's. That's a really difficult question in terms of college essays itself. I actually have a friend who, last year, when he was coming up with his college essay idea, he had entered in a lot of information about himself and some key events in his life into a general, a large language model, and then after it generated some traits or character traits he should emphasize in his college essay. And so that's one unique way to use it. But I definitely see it playing a larger influence later on. And even to talk about standardized testing for a little bit, when we look at tests like the sat, the act, and how students who are maybe inside sixth grade right now are going to have a different trajectory of learning mathematics and even reading and summarizing articles as they might be using AI more and more. I wonder how that will impact how they do on these other tests where AI is no longer present and LLMs are no longer there to assist them, to help them go through these problems or these passages.

So I'm gonna. I'm gonna go ahead and call out the elephant in the room here, guys, because I think the two of you are maybe the exception to the rule, right? Like both of you AI enthusiasts here on, you know, daily AI Podcast. But, you know, not all of your fellow students, especially in the U.S. share that same, uh, excitement and, uh, willingness to, to learn and to use generative AI the right way. Right? Because I know plenty of younger kids your age that they don't use ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude in the same way.

Right?

They're using it to just do as little work as possible, write all their papers, outline all their projects, etc. What are some of the downsides and dangers right now for students who are maybe over reliant on generative AI for those purposes?

I think as I mentioned, we have a STEM and scientific writing class and in this class we worked on making our independent research projects. And I know like a lot of kids in our class, like Genai was pretty big with this class in particular and like the subject of doing research and writing papers and I think with that there is like a possibility of misinformation and disinformation. So like, for example, like if you're writing a paper on certain metrics and like stuff you can use to test out some like novel thing that you're researching and the AI comes up with something that isn't accurate and you end up putting that in your paper without looking over it, and that could result in the pollution of the knowledge you're trying to convey through that paper. And I think that the dangers of misinformation with that, especially in communication, could be hugely one of the more notable dangers of AI. And along with that, another thing that I do with AI is I use it to code. So GitHub, Copilot and Find and other AI models, those are really, really helpful with doing small things and kind of executing your instructions. And if you have an AI model that's kind of ending up writing your code for you, there's also oftentimes a lot of bugs that you don't see until later on. And if those bugs, for example, if you're working on an actual larger scale project or you're developing and producing publishing and working on something like that, then that also could be one of the dangers. I don't know if it's as relevant, but so worth mentioning.

It's, you know, it's, it's wild, right? Because it all just really depends on when you're born, what your circumstances are, you know, at certain points in your educational journey, right? So I remember before computers, right, If I was working on a project, especially when I was younger, and if I needed information, I'd have to open up what few encyclopedias we had at home. And if it wasn't there, I'd have to go to the library. Basu, even. Can you talk a little bit? Even in just the last, maybe your high school journey, the last three or four years, how has AI changed what's possible? Because obviously you've grown up with the Internet, you've grown up with smartphones, social Media, et cetera. But how has generative AI changed what's possible for you as a student?

Yeah, it's certainly a drastic change as it impacts, I think, both areas very heavily. So inside previous waves of innovation, we've seen how more mundane tasks are kind of taken care of. But we've still had creative thought that we still need in our society. But really with AI, I see it as impacting both industries very heavily. And the reason for that is if I ever needed like a catchy title for an essay, or if I needed something for a project, I just type in some few key details into an LLM and I'd get plenty of answers. And many of these are actually very good answers as well. So I'm really impressed by the fact that AI is able to have maintained such high level of creative thought. But alongside that, if I need to summarize an article per se, while there is that slight fear of a hallucination taking place nine out of ten times, I'd say it's pretty accurate. So I'm really able to see how AI has really decreased the load on us. And that's kind of a danger in itself because we're losing these analytical skills. So while Armand and I have had freshman year where we were mainly not used to AI, so we've really developed some of these skills. I'd certainly say for younger generations it's probably, probably a lot harder.

Armand, how would you respond to that?

I know like, this may not be the easiest thing to say, but I will admit that it's made me lazy. So there are like some assignments that we do in school that are kind of like not. They don't require that much thought. I consider them like almost like a little bit brainless in the sense that it's just like going through an article, like finding the certain phrase that matches what's in a quiz and just like transferring that information or listening to a video and then kind of writing some bullet points from that. And there's times when it would definitely be easier for me to just do the work and give a second of thought to it, but I just don't feel like doing that. And I end up just making a transcript of the video, plugging it into an LLM or plugging the article into an LLM and answering the question. And I don't know if that's a good thing. I know especially if you're doing more important and more thought inducing work, then that won't always be like viable. But yeah, I'd say that's One of the things that have kind of happened for me.

Oh, oh, 100%.

Right.

And I'd say just about everyone in there is in that same boat with you, especially if you're a power user.

Right.

You always have to find that balance between like handing too much of this over to the AI versus like okay, should I be doing some of this on my own? I think it's a combination. Constant struggle. So, so we do have a couple good questions here from our audience. So we'll kind of rotate. So maybe first Vasu, we'll do this one here from Monica. She's saying are you seeing parents of students either pushing the school to use or not to use AI, but also to the school board teachers themselves?

Yeah, I think that's a fantastic question. So I'd say that my personal parents, they're very, they encourage us to use AI at my household. But I'd certainly say it depends on the parents background. So if they work in let's say the technology department, they're certainly very happy and excited to use AI. And I've even seen some parents who might not necessarily have that technological background and encourage it. But I'd certainly say some older generations, like grandparents, they might not be as accustomed to it or not as open to it. But I'd certainly say that many parents that I've talked to have asked us about AI and certainly think that it's the way of the future. So for the most part I'd say that a lot of parents are encouraging AI, but I know that there are certainly some who believe that we should still have that sole human aspect to us because if we do lose creative thought, that is one of the things that make us truly human. So it's going to be interesting to see how AI and humans grow to change the definition of creativity.

Speaking of AI and humans kind of growing together. This question here from Meredith. So maybe we'll go to you Armando, just kind of asking if you've used AI as a one on one tutor? Yeah, that's, that's a great question. Like how are you even specifically using large language models to help you learn?

Yeah, so one of the ways that I actually have used AI as kind of like a tutor before this was like especially prominent for me during like for math and chemistry. So I took chemistry last year and like to help us prepare for tests. Like there wasn't that much that our teacher gave us. So I kind of like went through practice problems and had the AI explained to me ones that I couldn't understand and it would do that really well, and I would pick up pretty well from that as well. As for competitive math, there's some math problems that I can't do that I don't really want to read the solution to, or I don't understand the solution. And then AI can. So I just plug it into an AI or like a language model, and then it would generate something for me that I could pick up from. But I think, like, with competitive math, like language models, like, on the higher end of that spectrum, it's like it becomes kind of crazy.

Vasu, what about you? How have you even personally used AI to help you, help you learn, to help you understand things better? Maybe to help you maybe. I don't know, maybe in areas where a teacher can.

Yeah, I've definitely used AI to help with research a lot. So it's really easy to get some broad set of. And also idea development, so to talk about idea development for a little bit, it's really easy to plug in one prompt and say, generate 10 topics or generate 10 ideas. And so that's really helpful to get some, like, basic information to then maybe even use pure human brainstorming after to get more and more ideas. But alongside that, in terms of like, using AI, I've definitely seen, like, my productivity has increased because of it, because whenever you hit like, a roadblock. So let's say you had, like, you had like a roadblock when you were writing. You could definitely say, like, continue this paragraph. And then you could see some ideas of where you could extend your thought and you could choose one and then maybe even just use human writing to take it from there.

I think we'll do one more question here. So, Armand Cecilia, asking here, I'm curious how AI is impacting communication between students and group interaction and learning. How has that impacted it?

Well, I'd say from my experience, I don't know if AI has really had that much to say with that. I'd say the way people work in groups is they kind of still talk to each other. And the groups that I've worked in, I've still kind of been way more on that human communication side where AI just does not play as much of a role. But there have been times in group projects that involve ideation, as Vasu mentioned, that we do use AI for coming up with ideas and then kind of like brainstorming as a group and. Or we put in, like, everything we say and, like, it'll condense it into, like, kind of notes. I know, like, zoom is a great feature for this, like, where it has, like, AI generated notes for summaries of meetings, and when we do meetings for that, or meetings over zoom, then you can use AI to do that and help us condense our thoughts. And along with that. Yeah, I think that group learning is kind of like in, like, the same boat.

Basu, what about you? And. And also, like, are there, yeah. Potential downsides, like when working in groups. Right. Like, I always think of, you know, nieces and nephews of mine. I'm looking over there and we're in a group and, like, everyone's on their phone, like on social media. Like, could it get like that? Like, you know, working on group projects, and instead of, you know, five or six students being in a group, it's just like everyone kind of pushing, you know, pushing a stick of a large language model and being like, come on, finish the group project.

Yeah, I think that's a scary reality that we might begin to see more and more often in the coming years, because at least, as Armand has mentioned, inside our school, we still have a lot of human interaction and communication. But I could certainly see that for younger generations, they'll definitely begin to start not only relying on these AI models more and more, but also might begin to use them within these group interaction, learning, like, opportunities that would go to a level where there's minimized communication from one another and maybe even just a simple, hey, you use this LLM to research this, and I'll use it to research this, and then after, we'll just put it together. Whereas for at least my experiences, I prefer to have a human, like, interaction with the individual. And then after we're like, okay, so we can research this together, we can use LLMs or AI to help us with this, and ultimately we'll get a nice finished product. So it's definitely going to change as those younger generations go into high school and find new and innovative ways to use AI.

All right. And hey, as. As we wrap up here, because we've talked about a lot, we've had some. Some deep conversations about, you know, should high school students be kind of handing over thinking abilities to AI? We talked about the future of education, some. Some pros and cons and challenges along the way. But as we wrap up here, maybe I'll give each of you a shot. Armand, what's your one most kind of important takeaway that you maybe want other students to hear or parents or educators when it comes to how AI is right now impacting the lives of high school students?

I think that no matter how much AI progresses, how easy things get, how much you can use it to benefit and make your work easier. You should never stop emphasizing the need to learn how to learn, and you shouldn't let AI get in the way of that, because that's like the most important skill that you can take away from primary school and later on in life. It's just like learning how to learn and how to process and consume new information.

All right, and then, Vasu, what about you? What is kind of the one most important takeaway that you might want to leave viewers and listeners with?

Yeah, absolutely. So I think to add on to what Armand said, you should maintain that ability to learn how to learn, but alongside that, you should also encourage AI, because AI is certainly here to stay. And by having kids learn AI inside high schools, middle schools, they'll not only become more responsible in its use, but they'll also know how to take creative pathways in the future outside of high school, in their future endeavors to help them not only grow, but also benefit the community as well. So I really think it's important for the education system to embrace AI while simultaneously teaching individuals how to learn.

So much good information. I loved this conversation. Being able to, you know, kind of rewind and take a look back at, you know, where would I be right 15, 20 years ago? But I think Vasu and Armand, you guys gave us some great insights on, you know, both opportunity risks and the road ahead. So thank you so much for your time and for joining the Everyday AI show. We really, we really appreciate it, guys.

Yeah, thank you so much for having us.

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