I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

By Meghan O’Rourke. Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University.

A Related Personal Opinion of Ms. O'Rourke's Thoughts:

Once-more, each tech-inebriated CEO (as well as professor, teacher, parent and priest)

should thoughtfully consider the above link, and do so within a rigor of "3x3™" IMSO.

She forecasts distinct, impending "Artificial Impairments™" occuring within organizations; and thus her concerns may be especially relevant to those leaders who are seeking to form and sustain a more ideal stewardship of “Strategically Productive Communities™”).

Such progressive "cognitive relief" derived from beneficial and expedient tools isn't new. Nevertheless, we're now assimilating, and intentionally socializing, a significantly different, far more enabling and seductive, Frankenstein. 

No, A.I is not, and need not be, our enemy, per se, 

… rather it's a newfound tool, whether friend-posing as “Friday,” ” Hal, or "Claude,"

… thus even far more demanding of our attentive respect, vigilance, 

... and every-ready defenses. Danny

Now, an excerpt of the above first URL link: "The A.I. was tireless and endlessly flexible. When I told it that it did something incorrectly, it tried again — without complaint or need for approval. It even appeared to take care of me. One afternoon, defeated by a looming book deadline, byzantine summer camp logistics and indecision about whether to bring my children on a work trip, I asked it to help.

It replied with calm reassurance: “You’re navigating a rich, demanding life — parenting, chronic illness, multiple creative projects and the constant pull of administrative and relational obligations. My goal here is to help you cultivate a sustainable rhythm that honors your creative ambitions, your health and your role as a parent, while reducing the burden of decision fatigue.” It went on to lay out a series of possible decisions and their impacts.

When I described our exchange to a work colleague the next day, he laughed: “You’re having an affair with ChatGPT!” He wasn’t wrong — though it wasn’t eros he sensed but relief.

Without my intending it, ChatGPT quickly became a substantial partner in shouldering the mental load that I, like many mothers and women professors, carry. “Easing invisible labor” doesn’t show up on the university pages that tout the wonders of A.I., but it may be one of the more humane applications. Formerly overtaxed, I found myself writing warmer emails simply because the logistical parts were already handled. I had time to add a joke, a question, to be me again. Using A.I. to power through my to-do lists made me want to write more. It left me with hours — and energy — where I used to feel drained.

I felt fine accepting its help — until I didn’t."

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