Sep 29, 2026 · 26 min · 8 segments
As we discussed last week, the robot apocalypse is maybe not coming, which means that we’re going to have to learn to live with artificial intelligence and related technologies. And now Randi…
Kali FontanillaGuestMichael WatsonHost
Tiffany GabayHostObviously, you know, we have this new, like, large language model artificial intelligence stuff that's become a big issue and is becoming an increasingly used technology.
Well, I left the classroom before AI, right before AI became a popular tool being used by students.
And I do think that teachers and the teachers union, unfortunately, need to have a voice in this conversation because we are seeing more students rely on AI to not just complete their papers, but also for their research.
AI is not the most reliable researcher and you're not really seeing everything out there.
To know if something like, I mean, just the other day I asked a very, so I have a weird interest in Japanese sumo wrestling.
And I asked, and I asked chat GPT, I was curious if something, a rare event had happened, how many times it had happened before.
And I asked ChatGPT, and it gave me an answer that didn't sound right, and I went and looked it up.
And it gave me an answer that didn't seem right, so I went to what I know is an authoritative resource, looked it up, and it was wrong.
So, you know, unless, especially if you're a student who's not familiar with what resources are authoritative, that could be an issue.
I was just going to inject as well that there is a whole marketing element to what comes back in your AI searches, right? If you're Googling something and those prompts come up with information that's been trawled from different instances on the web, essentially you have marketers who are putting information online Or rather, there are companies, organizations who frame the content on their website so that it is friendly and searchable and trawlable by the AI.
And so oftentimes you are just getting the hits that are ranking higher on Google because they have better marketing baked into their content as opposed to it being actually factual or substantive.
Obviously, you know, we have this new, like, large language model artificial intelligence stuff that's become a big issue and is becoming an increasingly used technology.
Well, I left the classroom before AI, right before AI became a popular tool being used by students.
And I do think that teachers and the teachers union, unfortunately, need to have a voice in this conversation because we are seeing more students rely on AI to not just complete their papers, but also for their research.
AI is not the most reliable researcher and you're not really seeing everything out there.
To know if something like, I mean, just the other day I asked a very, so I have a weird interest in Japanese sumo wrestling.
And I asked, and I asked chat GPT, I was curious if something, a rare event had happened, how many times it had happened before.
And I asked ChatGPT, and it gave me an answer that didn't sound right, and I went and looked it up.
And it gave me an answer that didn't seem right, so I went to what I know is an authoritative resource, looked it up, and it was wrong.
So, you know, unless, especially if you're a student who's not familiar with what resources are authoritative, that could be an issue.
I was just going to inject as well that there is a whole marketing element to what comes back in your AI searches, right? If you're Googling something and those prompts come up with information that's been trawled from different instances on the web, essentially you have marketers who are putting information online Or rather, there are companies, organizations who frame the content on their website so that it is friendly and searchable and trawlable by the AI.
And so oftentimes you are just getting the hits that are ranking higher on Google because they have better marketing baked into their content as opposed to it being actually factual or substantive.
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