I watched two very important movies when I was 11 years old that would shape my relationship with technology for the rest of my life: Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Lawnmower Man (the special effects are terrible, but this movie gave me 90s nightmares). Both films were about the personal and apocalyptic horrors that would befall mankind if we continued down the path of technological discovery.
This is from Terminator 2: Judgement Day, which was a tech terror and gay awakening for many elder millennials
They painted a picture of tech as something overwhelming and all-powerful. Looking back on these films now, I see them the way I see Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, not in terms of artistry, of course, but in their reflections of the anxieties that cultures experience when making technological leaps. How will this change us? Will we be punished for playing god? What is the cost of altering what it means to be alive, whether it is through expanding medical exploration to create a new form of human or expanding technological experimentation to create the human mind in a new form? In both cases, what happens to the human soul? Will this enhance life or destroy it?
Gueillermo del Toro’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
I worry about the impact of AI on the environment, artistic expression, education, and my own growth as a teacher and person. While I found myself agreeing with a lot of what Ferlazzo said, especially in relation to the benefits of planning for MLL and special education instruction, I don’t think I should use AI until I have a stronger foundation as a teacher so that I can catch mistakes and so that I can make the mistakes I need to make to learn. In my academic studies, I can’t see myself using AI too much because I am the person that Gallant & Rettinger described when they mentioned the student who would rather get a lower grade than cheat (or cut corners). I’m also just not someone who learns from cutting corners. I need immersion to learn. I love learning, and I have never seen the point of cheating in academics. I have always refused to compromise and play the game, but I also have ADHD. It's 1:00 am, and I've been doing homework for hours, and I'm not nearly done yet due to my learning needs and how I process information. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be able to freeze time just so that I could catch up in all areas of life- especially in school. There is just no way that the academic pace can slow down to what I need, so sometimes I think I should take up cheating… or I could experiment to see if AI can be a tool that can help my neurodivergent brain make friends with time.
This is from an 80’s show called Out of This World. The main character could stop time by touching her pointer fingers. Goals.
