Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. (Psychology Today, 3/22)

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26. IMHO AI should be highly regulated, by gov't policies, parents and ourselves.

Like any new technology, we can find ourselves relying on it too easily.

For example: how many of us have found ourselves getting a little lazy to spell correctly because we rely on spell check or not remembering a phone number that we call regularly because we dial it up from a name on our phone or a single digit. Don't get me started on calculators.

How many people under 40 can use a map or know what a Thomas guide is because they're 100% reliant on a GPS. I love to look at a map when planning road trips.

My mom swore she wouldn't use a microwave or a clothes dryer until I bought them for her.

My point is, technology can be useful but like with anything we use we have to sometimes force ourselves to be a little uncomfortable. Instead of a dryer, we might hang an item to drip dry if we don't want it to fade. When reheating food that we want a crispy dry top layer on we might use an oven instead of a microwave, unless it's a convection/microwave .

When I taught my daughter to drive, I taught her to drive in reverse before driving forward, for several hours over separate days and it bothered her but now she really appreciates that skill. Sure, it caused her discomfort, at first. Anybody can drive forward and for those that can't or shouldn't we now have self driving cars which I wouldn't be caught dead in.

Technology in moderation can be good but AI should never be relied upon 100%, again IMHO.