By skyforbes 
All I learned in high school in the 1970s was how to memorize stuff and spit it out in tests. I wasn’t taught how to think. In college, I took a 2-year accounting program. I enjoy intellectual activities like chess and Sudoku. I loved studying Latin and have taken it up again. Most of my friends spend their time on Netflix and social media, so I’m far more intellectually active than most of the people in my circle, but I still feel inadequate when it comes to critical thinking. It’s not that I’m mentally lazy. I simply lack the skills, and I’m too old to learn them now.
A quote often attributed to John D. Rockefeller, and echoed by his advisor Frederick T. Gates, is “I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.” While the exact quote’s authenticity is debated, it reflects the criticism that the GEB’s emphasis on a standardized, rote-learning curriculum was designed to produce a compliant workforce rather than critical thinkers.
I attended elementary and high school in the ’60s and ’70s. Whatever I was taught didn’t stick. What I was never taught was how to think. I didn’t get it in college either.
I use ChatGPT to gather and summarize information. I wish I’d learned the skill of critical thinking. I’m in my late 60s now. Maybe it’s too late for me.
I use AI for searching and summarizing. I also started experimenting with creating images with it for the e-cards I make. I’m considering cancelling my Canva Pro subscription since the only reason I got it was to put header images in my Medium articles that I want to submit to a publication.
I’m irritated when I hear people demonizing AI. It’s just a tool you can use for good or evil — same as the internet, TV, and radio. These were demonized too, when they first arrived on the scene.