Recently I saw a post where an AI consultant said that "AI is not an IT problem, it's a leadership problem." What nonsense!
So now, they are going to blame the leaders of school districts for a Silicon Valley creation that:
1) steals the copyrighted work of other authors to use in their training models,
2) in their LLM training they exploited low-wage workers in poverty-stricken parts of the world,
3) this product can create facsimile products that can pose as the work of creators to steal their livelihoods,
4) data centers for these products require massive amounts of power and water, often strapping the communities who have these deceptively forced upon with resource shortages,
5) these data centers are also having noise pollution issues in the communities where they are being placed.
6) there is growing concern about cognitive outsourcing for students and the consequences of that in children's futures.
7) Who knows what consequences that are yet to come...
So this AI consultant says, no, there's nothing wrong with AI, and that the problem is with school leaders.
The real problems with AI consultants and opportunists who are ignore the problems with this technology and already declare it as the savior of education, all for what has to be self-interest.
Added to this problem are school leaders believe such nonsense and hire these companies and consultants simply because AI has been mystified to the point that they think they can't possibly understand it. They are wrong. AI is not difficult to understand.
Isn't interesting that no matter the technology, it is flawless and causes no problems? It's always the educators, the leadership, the parents...or whatever the AI consultant can shift the blame to. It's standard sales tactics when you do not want someone to really look at the problems with a technology.
Good, solid leadership sees through all of these AI consultant sales pitches and cheerleading and acts accordingly. Be critical of all the AI Promo Rhetoric!
