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Quesenberry</a></span></span> <span class="sep"> ~ </span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://www.postcontrolmarketing.com/social-medias-growing-wellness-trend-what-does-it-mean-for-social-pros-and-social-profs/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p style="font-weight: 400;">I taught a social media strategy class this summer and I was surprised to find most students were not very active on social media personally. At first, I was stunned. This was a social media class after all. Would you take a film class if you didn’t watch movies?</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">After getting to know the students I found two reasons for this inactivity. It was a graduate course with a mix of older professionals and younger students right out of undergrad in our 4+1 MBA program. The older professionals never really got into social media. The younger students deleted personal accounts like Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat for negative personal effects.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">To see if this was unusual, I posted on a social media professor’s Facebook group asking if other instructors saw this in their classes. The number of responses indicate it’s not unusual. Most professors notice students backing away from personal social media use and mention reports of people limiting social media to focus on wellness.</p> <figure id="attachment_6964"><a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2012-01-01%202024-08-28&geo=US&q=social%20media%20wellness&hl=en"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-6964" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Screenshot-2024-08-28-at-4.18.08%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=656%2C427&ssl=1" alt="This is a graph showing a stead increase in the search term " width="656" height="427" /></a> Google searches for Social Media Wellness have increased since 2012.</figure> <p> </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Focus On Social Media Wellness Is Increasing.</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Social media apps have faced increasing scrutiny for their negative effects on youth. It’s been a year since the <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/23/surgeon-general-issues-new-advisory-about-effects-social-media-use-has-youth-mental-health.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory</a> on youth mental health and social media. This fall an increasing number of U.S. schools are Implementing <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/new-school-year-push-ban-cellphones-takes-center/story?id=112873042">student cellphone bans</a> amid a mental health crisis and decreased learning. I instituted <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10776958221106020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tech limits in my classes</a> after the pandemic due to negative learning outcomes.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">A recent article from <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/should-everyone-limit-their-social-media-use-7368887" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Very Well Mind</a> shared the news that TikTok is adding automatic 60-minute daily time limits for users under 18. This may not be surprising considering the recent scrutiny over teen social media use. What was interesting is that the article also posed the question, “Could everyone benefit from similar time limits?”</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">The article makes a good case for restrictions citing a study from the <em><a href="https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/cyber.2021.0324" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking</a></em> which found people who stopped using social media (Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram) for a week had significant improvements in their anxiety, well-being, and depression. The average age of study participants was 30.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/should-everyone-limit-their-social-media-use-7368887" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Very Well Mind</a> interviewed Jamilia Jones, a clinical therapist who says, “By learning to set boundaries on the time and energy we invest in scrolling through our feeds, we can potentially reduce feelings of anxiety, depression, and loneliness often associated with excessive social media consumption.”</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Limits Can Help Users Maintain A Healthier Work-Life Balance. </strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">In full disclosure, I had particular trouble writing this article because I kept feeling drawn to check my social media. That Facebook group and my LinkedIn. I’ve been posting about AI recently which has sparked a lot of conversation. I wanted to see if anyone else has Liked or commented.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Ex-Facebook president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/09/facebook-sean-parker-vulnerability-brain-psychology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sean Parker</a> has admitted that Facebook was developed with the objective: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” This led to features such as the “Like” button to give users “a little dopamine hit.” Parker continued, “It’s a social-validation feedback loop … exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.”</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Some return to social media to see how many Likes a post, picture or video got to feel good. Others, turn to social for news or to fill time but find themselves “<a href="https://www.stayhere.live/blog/2024/2/16/doom-scrolling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doomscrolling</a>” as <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/1036519/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-algorithms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">algorithms serve up more negative content</a> because it keeps us engaged. This can lead to anxiety, depression, and isolation. That’s the bad. But there’s still plenty of good.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>What If Your Job Is Social Media?</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Social media still has many positive personal benefits. It is also a driver of business for large companies and local pizza shops. We need social media professionals and I teach students how to become them. How do you strike a balance between professional social media use while guarding against negative personal social media effects?</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Boundaries to consider are social personal use, professional use (career), and company use (posting for a brand). It’s easy for these to bleed together when all are accessed anytime, anywhere from the same device. Social media professionals specifically report having a hard time with work-life balance.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve talked about the negative health effects from social media, and social media professionals spend the most time there. The field is changing all the time so there’s pressure to keep up and it’s hard to leave work at the office when social media is 24/7/365. <a href="https://blog.hootsuite.com/ways-to-avoid-social-media-burnout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emma Brown</a> at Hootsuite suggests several ways to avoid social media burnout.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><em>Ways to avoid social media burnout: </em></strong></p> <ul style="font-weight: 400;"> <li><strong><em>Set boundaries. </em></strong>Have social media–free time. Turn off work streams after work.</li> <li><strong><em>Give eyes a rest. </em></strong>Eye strain can lead to irritated eyes, neck and back pain, plus can cause headaches.</li> <li><strong><em>Get up and move. </em></strong>Walk (without your phone) regularly for mental and physical health breaks.</li> <li><strong><em>Get some sleep. </em></strong>Sleep (without devices) is healthy and makes you more productive.</li> <li><strong><em>Structure time. </em></strong>Assign parts of your day to specific activities (one-hour blocks).</li> <li><strong><em>Delete apps. </em></strong>Make your phone a personal device. Manage brand social on a laptop.</li> <li><strong><em>Digital detox. </em></strong>Take digital free time off for a night or weekend to recharge.</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Do You Have To Be Personally Active On Social To Be A Social Media Professional?</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">This question got the most responses in the social media professors group. Some clearly say that you can’t make students be on social media even for a social media class. But others make a strong point that you can’t be a social media marketer without knowing what it is like to be on social media.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Companies used to want to hire college students to run their social media because they knew grew up spending their time on social media personally. I worried that they didn’t know enough about the business side of marketing strategy. Twelve years after I began teaching social media strategy we may see the opposite.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Today students could be studying social media marketing but limiting personal use or even deleting social media apps. A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/opinion/social-media-smartphones-harm-regret.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> of 18-to 27-year-olds found significant regret over social media use. While 52% said social media benefited their lives, 29% said it harmed them personally. In fact, about half of Gen Z wish TikTok (47%) and Twitter/X (50%) were never invented.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">What about current social media pros? Do they need to be active on every social platform to do their job well? Or can they run social media business accounts on platforms like TikTok and Twitter/X but not have their own account to limit personal exposure?</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>What Does All This Mean?</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve been teaching social media marketing for over a decade, have created social media campaigns for clients, and have a <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538167090/Social-Media-Strategy-Marketing-Advertising-and-Public-Relations-in-the-Consumer-Revolution-Fourth-Edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media marketing book</a>. I have benefited from social media personally and professionally. I’m obviously not recommending deleting or banning social media. But I think it’s obvious we need more balance.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">I resisted having AI write this article, but I did turn to Copilot for some ideas on how to find more balance in our social media use. I think the suggestions are a good beginning.</p> <figure id="attachment_6968" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6968" style="width: 645px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-6968" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-06-at-2.24.01%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=645%2C373&ssl=1" alt="An image of suggestion that Copilot had for balancing social media use by setting boundaries, using technology like screen time, prioritizing real-life relationships, curating your feed, and mindfulness." width="645" height="373" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6968" class="wp-caption-text">Copilot doesn’t use social media, but has good suggestions for us to manage our social media use. Generated with AI (Copilot) ∙ September 6, 2024 2:30 PM</figcaption></figure> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Have you seen the social media wellness trend? What does it mean for you personally and professionally whether you are a social media pro or a social media professor?</p> <p><em><strong>This Was Human Created Content!</strong></em></p> </div> </article> <article id="post-6552" class="post-6552 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-advertising tag-art tag-artificial-intelligence-ai tag-college-education tag-content-marketing tag-creativity tag-design tag-imagination tag-imc tag-integrated-marketing-communication tag-keith-a-quesenberry tag-keith-quesenberry tag-liberal-arts tag-marketing tag-pr tag-public-relations tag-social-media tag-social-media-marketing tag-social-media-strategy tag-writing"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.postcontrolmarketing.com/artificial-intelligence-use-i-went-to-find-human-connection-i-found-artificial-intelligence-distraction/" rel="bookmark">Joy Interrupted: AI Can Distract From Opportunities For Learning And Human Connection.</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <img width="656" height="300" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?resize=656%2C300&ssl=1" class="attachment-penscratch-featured size-penscratch-featured wp-post-image" alt="An image of a poster promoting the Ross Gay even on a college campus." decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?resize=656%2C300&ssl=1 656w, https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?zoom=2&resize=656%2C300&ssl=1 1312w, https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?zoom=3&resize=656%2C300&ssl=1 1968w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px" /> </div> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on"><a href="https://www.postcontrolmarketing.com/artificial-intelligence-use-i-went-to-find-human-connection-i-found-artificial-intelligence-distraction/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-08-13T05:00:49-04:00">August 13, 2024</time><time class="updated" datetime="2024-08-15T16:06:47-04:00">August 15, 2024</time></a></span><span class="byline"><span class="sep"> ~ </span><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.postcontrolmarketing.com/author/kquesen/">K. Quesenberry</a></span></span> <span class="sep"> ~ </span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://www.postcontrolmarketing.com/artificial-intelligence-use-i-went-to-find-human-connection-i-found-artificial-intelligence-distraction/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p><em>This is the fifth post in a series of five on AI. </em>My <a href="https://wp.me/p4FGNg-1Hv" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last post</a> discussed why we need more than prompt engineers, but also subject matter experts. This post discusses the danger of losing that learning if AI is not used in the best ways.</p> <p>Last spring, I went to a campus reading from <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author and poet <a href="https://www.rossgay.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ross Gay</a>. It was well attended by faculty, administrators, employees, community members, and students. In front of me, three students sat with two on laptops and one on a phone. My first thought was a professor required attendance and they were taking notes for an assignment.</p> <figure id="attachment_6553"><a href="https://www.rossgay.net"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-6553" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329-1024x959.jpeg?resize=656%2C614&ssl=1" alt="" width="656" height="614" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?resize=1024%2C959&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?resize=300%2C281&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1439&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1918&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?w=1312&ssl=1 1312w, https://i0.wp.com/www.postcontrolmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ross-GAy-scaled-e1720179351329.jpeg?w=1968&ssl=1 1968w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px" /></a> A great opportunity on campus was this author’s reading and book signing.</figure> <p> </p> <p>Ross began drawing me in with engaging stories of happiness and sorrow and simple delights found in life if we pay attention. He’s a master observer of joy found in everyday moments. His message and delivery were powerful, yet, my attention was soon distracted by the busy screens in front of me.</p> <p>Glancing down it was obvious the students weren’t taking notes. They didn’t look up at the author at all. The student in the middle was watching a video on the phone. The two on laptops were jumping back and forth between different websites, documents, emails, and social media.</p> <p>Despite Ross’s dramatic reading, I had trouble focusing with three screens flitting around in front of me. I imagined what it’s like to be a student in the back of a lecture hall or even a small classroom with dozens of student multitasking screens in front of them.</p> <h4 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>AI promises to free us from busy work.</strong></h4> <p>Between the author’s readings, I glanced down again, hoping to find evidence of something related to the event and this author. Instead, I noticed the ChatGPT screen. Maybe the student was using it to supplement an assignment or get help with a difficult task. Perhaps I’d see how a professor integrated AI into a class.</p> <p>Instead, I saw quiz questions from the university learning management system. Each question and answer was quickly copied back and forth between ChatGPT and a course quiz. Twenty questions were answered in less than a minute. I saw no effort to answer questions first or even read them. Did the student not know this was wrong? Or were they so engrossed in the screen that they forgot their surroundings? Perhaps the student views quizzes as busy work, not a learning tool to ensure reading and internalizing information.</p> <p>AI promises to free us from drudgery to explore human creativity and imagination. The article <a href="https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/05/20/how-ai-can-save-you-time-5-skills-you-no-longer-need-to-learn" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>“How AI can save you time: 5 skills you no longer need to learn,</em>”</a> tells us we can now skip learning skills like writing because AI will do writing like reports and news articles for us. I wonder what creativity the journalist will explore when <em>Euro News</em> outsources articles to AI. I don’t want to be freed from writing. My creativity and imagination are explored through writing and evidence tells us <a href="https://the-learning-agency-lab.com/the-learning-curve/learn-better-through-writing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing is how we learn</a>.</p> <p>If the student in front of me was using AI to save time to explore human creativity, they missed one of the best opportunities that semester. While they focused on their screen using AI, a poet expressed the joy of being human moving some in the room to tears.</p> <h4><strong>Sometimes there is no shortcut to learning.</strong></h4> <p>Much of AI is being marketed to us and students as a shortcut. The easy way to complete a task, assignment, paper, or degree. In <a href="https://marcwatkins.substack.com/p/ais-promise-to-pay-attention-for" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI’s Promise To Pay Attention For You.,</a> Marc Watkins of Mississippi AI Institute, says, <em>“Many third-party app developers are building off of OpenAI’s API to create apps that promise an end-to-end user experience where a machine listens for you, complies with information, and then creates bespoke summaries all so you don’t feel burdened by listening or thinking about the content.”</em></p> <p>TikTok is full of student videos promoting these apps as the easy way to an easy grade. I’m all for removing friction to make banking, car buying, and hotel booking easy. But is easy the best way to learn? What if friction and struggle are how we learn? In an op-ed <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/22/opinion/chatgpt-gpt4o-demo-education/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jane Rosenzweig</a> of Harvard College Writing Center says, <em>“Our students are not products to be moved down a frictionless assembly line, and the hard work of reading, writing, and thinking is not a problem to be solved.”</em></p> <p>If not used properly AI can get in the way of learning. This summer I received an email marketing assignment in which a student “wrote” bland generic email copy. Then a paragraph explained how the email <em>“fosters a deep emotional connection with the audience”</em> and <em>“reflects a deep understanding of the target audience’s needs.”</em> But it didn’t! It sounded like the correct but unfeeling, general copy LLMs tend to generate.</p> <p>The LLM knew what good email copy should do, but couldn’t write it. My student needed to be the human in the loop. I can teach how to write copy that forms an emotional connection with the audience based on human insight, but not if a student uses AI to write the entire assignment. Why would an employer hire them if AI could complete the entire project on its own?</p> <h4 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Is liberal arts education the answer to AI job losses?</strong></h4> <p>If AI takes away skills, many say the way to remain relevant is through liberal arts. <em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-companies-hiring-liberal-arts-humanities-grads-2024-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Insider</a></em> says AI startup founders hire liberal arts grads to get an edge. In <em><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/goldman-tech-guru-says-ai-spurring-revenge-of-the-liberal-arts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg</a>,</em> a Goldman Tech Guru says AI is spurring a <em>“Revenge of the Liberal Arts.”<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/own-future-artificial-intelligence-read-shakespeare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> WIRED</a></em> proclaims, <em>“To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare.”</em></p> <p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-ai-chief-advises-people-093000562.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IBM’s AI chief</a> advises students who want a tech job to learn the language and creative thinking skills you get in the liberal arts. Because AI speaks our language not computer code we need prompt engineers “to train it up in human behavior and thinking.”</p> <p>Marketing AI Institute’s <a href="https://businessesgrow.com/2024/03/13/using-ai-without-being-overwhelmed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Roetzer </a>believes the next generation entering the workforce will remain relevant with a broad-based liberal arts education. Literature, philosophy, history, and art are what make us human and teach critical thinking, analysis, creativity, communication, collaboration, integrity, understanding, and nuance. What AI can’t do.</p> <p>But what if AI can also get in the way of learning liberal arts? Using AI to skip the reading and skip the writing skips the learning to save time for what? Doing the reading, processing the information, committing it to memory, and explaining it through writing is how you learn critical thinking and creativity. To have an imagination you need knowledge.</p> <h4 style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Is AI the answer to our loneliness epidemic?</strong></h4> <p>In 2023, the Surgeon General released an <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-general-advisory-raises-alarm-about-devastating-impact-epidemic-loneliness-isolation-united-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advisory</a> warning of a crisis of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection. Nearly half in the U.S. experience loneliness which can increase the risk of death comparable to smoking. Rates of anxiety and depression on <a href="//0BEF1783-B8AB-4DD5-9A26-A347BA5B0152/AI%20proponents%20are%20offering%20artificial%20intelligence%20friends%20AI%20companions%20as%20an%20efficient%20cure%20for%20loneliness." target="_blank" rel="noopener">college campuses</a> have never been higher. More than 60% of college students report at least one mental health problem.</p> <p>Some are promising AI can solve this problem with <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91027756/ai-companions-promise-to-combat-loneliness-but-history-shows-the-dangers-of-one-way-relationships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artificial intelligence friends</a>. I sat in a room full of people with an author talking about human connection while students in front of me focused on their screens. Are AI friends really the best solution? What I often see in the classroom is students not talking to each other because they are focused on their screens.</p> <p>After <a href="https://www.rossgay.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ross</a> finished there was a Q&A. A mental health professional behind me wanted to thank him. She gives her patients struggling with anxiety and depression Ross’s books as homework. Many report back that the books make the difference in being able to get out of bed some days.</p> <p>I did not miss the irony. Many students struggle with anxiety and depression and many feel <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/23/surgeon-general-issues-new-advisory-about-effects-social-media-use-has-youth-mental-health.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">screen time</a> is a part of it. Yet, here I was between a mental health professional, students, and one of her solutions. A real human in the room. I’m sad for the students who missed out on the joy of the evening – right past the screens taking their attention. In reading Jonathan Haidt’s <em><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729231/the-anxious-generation-by-jonathan-haidt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Anxious Generation</a></em> my understanding and empathy for Gen Z has grown.</p> <h4>The exception rather than the rule.</h4> <p>It’s important to note this was a couple students. I’m grateful for the larger group of enthusiastically engaged students at the event. In my experience, most students are not looking for the easy way out and want to learn their disciplines by integrating AI in beneficial ways. But they need our guidance.</p> <p>In a review by <a href="https://www.turnitin.com/press/press-detail_17793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Turnitin</a>, they found that of the more than 200 million writing assignments reviewed by Turnitin’s AI detection tool last year, some AI use was detected in just 1 out of 10 assignments. Only 3 out of every 100 were generated mostly by AI.</p> <p><a href="https://www.edweek.org/technology/new-data-reveal-how-many-students-are-using-ai-to-cheat/2024/04" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Education experts</a> warn that focusing too much on AI cheating can cause distrust between instructors and students. We should frame the conversation around ways AI can both support and detract from learning. Our role is AI literacy providing specific guidance on when and when not to use AI.</p> <p>I hope to educate students on the role of AI in their lives and how to make intentional choices about <a href="https://www.postcontrolmarketing.com/ai-use-template-a-framework-for-determining-what-tasks-to-outsource-to-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">what to outsource to AI, </a>what to keep for ourselves, and how to <a href="https://www.postcontrolmarketing.com/artificial-intelligence-use-how-do-we-prepare-students-for-careers-with-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prepare for careers with AI </a>to keep humans in the loop.</p> <p><b><i>This Was Human Created Content!</i></b></p> </div> </article> <nav class="navigation paging-navigation clear" role="navigation"> <h1 class="screen-reader-text">Posts navigation</h1> <div class="nav-links"> <div class="nav-previous"><a href="https://www.postcontrolmarketing.com/tag/content-marketing/page/2/" ><span class="meta-nav">Previous</span></a></div> 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