Before reading on, this is a compilation of my thoughts and fears surrounding AI in the writing and educational industry. While I recognize the usefulness of AI, it does not need to be streamlined in jobs and teaching (for example, the Grammarly program that I use).

Starting in elementary school, it was drilled into our heads the importance of academics and professional skills to the likeliness of breathing air and drinking water. It was vital for our success into our adulthood. As we grow and develop, our thoughts shift from the educational sphere to the professional sphere naturally as we progress. That being said, there is an ethical obligation to address the inherent ethical and moral problems associated with AI whether it be in an educational sphere or professional sphere. AI, or Artificial intelligence, can be an array of tools (Chat-GPT, Essay Writer, Quillbot, and Wordtune to name a few) found within the web browser's contents.Â
The AI tools available on the market have been noted to help students with idea generation, organizing thoughts, teaching better paraphrasing skills, helping with grammar and vocabulary checks instantaneously, as well as many other miraculous things to help the modern-day writer. With all these wonderful qualities in AI, it comes to the point when will it begin to replace natural human creativity. When will ideas come less from storyboard rooms and more from lines of code typed up in some dark office space? It’s a terrifying idea, especially in the modern scape where jobs can already be scarce, and to have the jobs that depend on human creativity or critical thinking potentially outsource to machines? An absolute crime.Â
After everything, the question arises about how we, as humans, can use AI software and systems strictly as a tool throughout our academic and professional careers. AI, or artificial intelligence, has been seen throughout the 21st century, starting as early as spelling and grammar checks in word processors academically. These systems are either coded to benefit a specific niche such as Google or coded to find research articles, or trained by humans to generate a response to a prompt, much like Chat-GPT. AI is an umbrella term in these conditions.Â
The real question at hand is what are the effects of these AI tools in the educational and professional spheres regarding writing whether it be submitting an essay for a history class or sending a notice to one of your important stakeholders; writing matters whether it's left in the hands of humanity or the machines.Â
The value in answering this question is to help tamper down the fear of the modern writer regarding replacement or being discarded. There is an inherent fear in man now, that of producing and utilizing or failing to thrive and suffering for it - termination. Answering or at the very least helping address these questions can help the modern-day writer know that they aren't alone in their fears and that there is a lens on this issue and the full answer is still being developed.Â
AI tends to value the quantity of data output over the quality. Content written by these softwares is often dry and lacks creativity, and the human touch to bring about ethos, logos, and pathos identities. The answer professionals must find is how to properly use AI in our ever-growing fields as well as how to teach students to use the tools and not rely on them for a good grade. Through research already addressed, better writing and problem-solving skills with the help of AI bring about confidence and more creativity in a person’s writing.Â
How AI affects students and professionals is important to the writing studies field through the fear of it potentially taking over our entry-level jobs as well as stopping the overuse of this technology. Through writing blocks, AI can be used as a starting point for ideas and references to personal works instead of seeking out another’s help. Unfortunately, the ideas surrounding AI, as I presented, are also an endless cycle.Â
In conclusion, this is an important question to not only myself but future writers everywhere. At what point will the AI takeover have a genuine end? At which point will we have an effective balance of using AI as tools versus creating an over-reliance on them? Only more research into AI’s lasting effects on these fields will help the fears and hatred of AI dwindle in the modern sphere.
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