The people who refuse to use AI

SOME of Ellen Rugaber’s high school teachers allow students to use artificial intelligence for schoolwork, but she prefers not to.

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“It’s part of growing up to learn how to do your own work,” said the 16-year-old, who attends school in Arlington, Virginia. She doesn’t want to offload her thinking to a machine and worries about the bias and inaccuracies AI tools can produce, she said.

Abstaining from using AI makes Rugaber one of the few students at her school with strong viewpoints on the technology, she said. Beyond campus, she has company.

As the tech industry and corporate America go all in on artificial intelligence, some people are holding back.