• Question: Has AI affected your jobs in any way, and do you think its necessary to use AI?

    Asked by suzi on 11 Feb 2025.
    • Photo: Caroline Roche

      Caroline Roche answered on 11 Feb 2025:

      AI has already helped with learning and development where I work. It’s great for helping people get a grasp of general terms but it has also caused some security concerns. The information used on projects can be sensitive and our customers don’t want anyone looking at it, so making sure people understand they can’t just upload a document to an AI engine to get answers is a priority.
      I think once AI gets better it will be a great tool, that you would be foolish not to use but you will still need someone checking that the answers it gives and the information it is basing it’s decisions on is correct.

    • Photo: Connor Fitchett

      Connor Fitchett answered on 12 Feb 2025:

      I think AI has the potential to be very helpful. For example, one of the strengths of AI at the moment is writing code. My colleagues and I work in many different programming languages, and so understanding each other’s code and converting them to our languages can be difficult. ChatGPT is very good at this, and whilst it will frequently give errors, it can be a significant time save.

      I don’t think it is necessary to use AI, but I can see it becoming helpful and hopefully only enable people further in the future.

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  • Photo: aureliabrzezowska

    aureliabrzezowska commented on :

    This is an amazing question and I will be extremely honest. AI is not necessary for everything, it is actually quite harmful in many scenarios. In cybersecurity the risk of using AI versus positives is overwhelming. In art and gaming, using AI is frowned upon. But if you are predicting the weather, AI is useful. It all depends on what it will be used for and the reasoning behind it. Companies have jumped onto the trend because everyone else is doing it and suffered lots of loss in terms of money and quality of their products. Always ask yourself… can it be done more efficiently without AI? Can it be done more sustainable without AI? Will it take longer to use AI for it? Is it using a lot of highly personal data? If the answer to any of these is yes… AI may not be the solution.