The group PACES Vancouver is a parent initiative worth looking into. They've got helpful sections about what specifically makes AI bad and other similar things for you to check out. You can also go back to our main page & fill out the form as a parent if you want to!
It's worth understanding the fundamental reality that AI is not actually beneficial for learning. It has been repeatedly shown to not be helpful and actually damage student problem solving ability.
AI's training has been shown to be incredibly damaging to those who worked on it. There is also a severe environmental cost: AI datacentres right now use more than the entire electricity demand of Canada, producing a strong argument for environmentalists to want to avoid AI entirely.
Microsoft is an American company, and American companies must comply with US data law, meaning the US has full access to all student data collected by Microsoft. Obviously, this creates some amount of concern.
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