Tea at Trianon: PARENTS BEWARE: The Use of AI in The Classroom

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, August 18, 2024

PARENTS BEWARE: The Use of AI in The Classroom

From The Easton Gazette:

As technology advances, there's a great danger that parents need to be aware of, and that is the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the classroom. For those who do not fully understand AI and how it works, it's databases of stored information paired with algorithms to return a desired predetermined or predicted result, reaction, code, or method. The problem is, AI is not perfect, and programmed results will often contain left-leaning bias on certain topics. In all things, there's an absolute truth. Today, databases of opinions are being peddled as fact when it comes to political influence of what's considered ideal in society. Who gets to decide what's ideal to be delivered through AI? The political elite, and your child is being programmed through the schools. (Read more.)