Intern Insights w/ Summer Intern Allie, signing in for her 3rd Blog Post: AI in the Workplace

Hello, my name is Allie, a soon-to-be junior at Milpitas High School and 2024 Summer Intern with Milpitas Unified School District through the City of Milpitas' Milpitas Youth Force. I started this blog, "Intern Insights," to share my experiences while offering a student perspective throughout my internship this Summer!

Hello, everyone! It’s now the middle of my second week of working as an intern of the MUSD office and I’m having just such a blast! Yesterday, Director of Technology Chin Song held a meeting for staff with the target of showcasing  what Artificial Intelligence (AI)  is; how it can be used in the workplace; how technology such as AI can improve people's lives; and how to think of AI as your own personal assistant.

AI is a great tool for writing emails to colleagues, your employers and even translating text into 156 other languages in order to communicate with virtually anyone. I too explored the AI program Khanmigo yesterday in order to form my own opinions on this technological advancement. From doing so, I gathered that it was a great help in forming phenomenal rough drafts to further build upon when trying to create stories or just write in general. Additionally, while testing out Khanmigo, I prompted it to help me craft a yearbook story on why math is useful.  It helped set up the guidelines and tools to allow me to gather inspiration to continue writing the story on my own.  Not once would it just simply write for me, dissolving the rumors that all AI is just blatant cheating and limits all student creativity.
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Ultimately even though AI may seem like a danger to some in the workplace or schools, from my perspective, it's more like a personal assistant to help you find the foundation for writing, planning and saving time.