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Jai
“Every time you use an electronic device, there is AI and machine learning built in.
That’s why I love it so much. It’s used everywhere, and it makes our life so much better. A lot of people don’t even realize where it’s being used. If you put on headphones, there’s machine learning working on your headphones. There’s machine learning between your electronic car key and your car. There’s a lot of it everywhere, and so I think there are so, so many positives. I wouldn’t want to live in a world without this TV or that fan or the smartlights.
I was born into a world where it’s everywhere. I didn’t sign a waiver or anything, right?”
Jai Giri
I’m really looking forward to how much more it can help me in the future. I know some people are scared of it doing too much, but they’re forgetting someone has to prompt it or it will not do anything. I really like computer science, and it just becomes more creative. No one codes anymore. That’s the fun part, and I’m looking forward to the day where I can just be like, “Yo, Claude, make this for me. Write a code that will do this.” I still have to come up with that idea, but it can kind of do the boring parts for me, the parts that would take excess time.
You can’t accidentally slip, fall on your keyboard, open up a companion, and have a one-hour-long conversation. It’s a very deliberate decision. I think if you use it, then you should not be complaining about the negative effects.
I was born into a world where it’s everywhere. I didn’t sign a waiver or anything, right? I was born, and AI was probably used in the hospital that I was born at. We didn’t know it was coming, but it’s so helpful. I don’t think I can imagine a world without it.”
Saahil
“I’m not looking forward to AI. I think AI might take over the world because robots – someone could teach it negatively like how to shoot a gun or something that could be violent. I also think there’s going to be no meaningful jobs in the future, that many people are going to end up with the same low-skill jobs because there’s no way you can be in the tech or engineering industry. Like many friends, I’ve already given up on trying to do that in the future because I just think there’s no point.
I would never talk to a robot to be my friend. I would never stoop that low.”
Saahil Giri
You could do music, but that’s also auto–tune, and you can also do AI for that. Things might be in-person jobs, singing and acting. Because no one really wants to see a robot acting, and people also want to see humans with real emotions, like using it through their acting, and the singing, like using emotions in their singing, and no one really wants to see a robot singing. Or maybe sports, too. Sports are never going to be taken over, or maybe the Olympics, because it’s about human strength and what humans are capable of.
I would never talk to a robot to be my friend. I would never stoop that low, that I have to talk to a robot instead of another human. I just think it’s kind of weird. For the other people, I think it is fair because the AI will never be judgemental like humans can. They’ll never really say, ‘You should look at it differently.’ They’ll just help you. Everyone’s also scared of doing things because of peer pressure or how others will think. But what if it’s a bot that (tells you,) ‘You can’t think like other people?’ It’s just always going to assume you’re right.”
Saahil and Jai Giri are sophomores at Mountain View High School.
This profile is one of nineteen featured in the “Humans in an age of AI” portrait series. See more profiles here.
