Perfection Simply Isn’t Human

Elizabeth Smith ’29

What does it mean to be human? And why should we care? In this day and age the use of artificial intelligence has increased tremendously, so much so that the line between human intelligence and artificial intelligence has thinned out. This AI epidemic is not allowing students to think for themselves by writing and producing their work for them. Despite this being an issue, it simply isn’t stopping students from continuing. Many students don’t recognize that the “perfect” writing that is produced by AI isn’t so perfect to teachers.

I have heard time and time again not to not use AI, which seems self explanatory, but I always wonder how teachers are able to tell and why it isn’t what they’re looking for. I think a huge part of their objection to AI not only stems from students not doing their work, but because there is no point to reading artificial writing. Why even turn in writing that wasn’t written by you? Teachers look for growth and areas to improve, therefore humans want to read humans’ work.

In the end, the probability of artificial intelligence writing better than a human is quite high, but it will never change the fact that it is only producing information that was already written by humans. And that means that it will never have the mistakes or rawness of real writing. Writing that has layers to it and shows critical thinking that teachers want. Humans aren’t and will never be flawless, but in some way that imperfection is what makes humans so beautiful. The uniqueness of every piece created will always have more significance and meaning that artificial intelligence’s emotionless self will never recreate.