Today, we looked at AI and work: automation, which jobs may disappear or change, and which jobs may be in demand in the future.
Task: Create a single-file HTML webpage containing an article about AI and its impact on work.
Style: The editor’s decision. It can look/read similar to BBC News, The Atlantic, or any serious online publication, but I do not want it to feel like a generic school project. Give it some life, spark, and a unique angle.
For the main angle, I want the article to focus on the idea that AI may not completely destroy education or work, but it could remove the some entry level jobs by automating the beginner tasks people usually learn from: first drafts, basic grading, research, formatting, routine feedback, and entry level analysis.
I want to use today’s talk by Timothee Chung as the main human/class source. I took long notes on it, especially about Korean hagwons, AI in education, and the idea that AI may reshape schools instead of simply killing them. Please use the talk as the foundation of the article.
Some key ideas from the talk that I want included:
• Korean hagwons/private learning centers and how common they are.
• The question of whether AI will kill learning centers, schools, or colleges.
• The analogy between photography and painting: photography did not kill painting, but it pushed painting to evolve.
• Picasso and Cubism as an example of art becoming less about copying reality and more about interpretation.
• The company’s AI grader, Hummingbird, replacing human e-tutors.
• Feedback going from several days to seconds.
• The cost of grading dropping massively.
• The tension that this is efficient, but it also means real workers were replaced.
• The idea that AI can be useful but still lacks real human warmth, judgment, and experience.
Also include my personal perspective. I am optimistic but also worried about AI. In the long run, I think it will probably be better for humanity because it can make work more efficient if people use it correctly and do not let it do the whole job for them. But I am also frustrated because since around 2022–2023, I wanted to study computer science. I have always been into computers, and CS looked like a high-paying career with more normal hours than finance. Now finance is probably going to be my career path, but AI made tech feel less safe. Entry-level roles started seeming rarer, less guaranteed, and in some cases like they were disappearing.
Include a Seoul-specific observation too. While in Seoul, I saw promotional posters for a restaurant that were clearly AI-generated. I am not really fond of AI art. The good thing is that many people are not either, because humans still seem to crave authentic human art. Connect this to the painting/photography analogy: even if AI can technically generate images, that does not mean people stop valuing real human creativity.
The article should include:
• A strong headline and subtitle.
• A byline.
• Several article sections.
• At least two pull quotes from the talk.
• A chart and a table with matching numbers.
• A sources section.
• A design that feels like a real publication.
• At least ten “evidence of humanity” details from class, my personal thoughts, and my observations in Seoul.
Copy it, paste it into ChatGPT, then change one thing and re-run. That's the exercise.