Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: 'Academic integrity is at risk'

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13. Not necessarily in the case of how I use it for work.

Although to be clear, I 100% agree with your disgust at the unethical uses of AI.

So far I have only ever seen public forum posts used in responses by Copilot to my prompt. It turns out it is faster to use Copilot than to search those forums myself. (I only use it for VERY specific types of queries related to a very popular software platform that has a massive amount of public web content.)

I have to take what Copilot gives me and make it actually WORK in manually written software solutions (we can't use AI agents yet - GOOD!). Half the time it is no better than a pointer to other search terms for me to follow up with more detailed manual searching.

My biggest concerns with AI are:
* environmental impact of data centers - this COULD be managed if we have the will, which sadly we won't in most places
* use of AI for unethical goals - I like Anthropic's focus on guardrails and wonder if it's enough, but Trump hates them, so they must be better than the alternatives
* your last point - that use of AI can make people dumber and more dependent on it than their own brains. I think this could also be managed, but first people have to recognize the potential issue.