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Mandatory AI in school must be stopped

What a striking juxtaposition on the front page (Journal, Aug. 8) between the two top stories: More than $900 million wrung from Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire to help New Mexico children recover from the harms done by his nasty algorithms, and right beneath it a story celebrating New Mexico's children returning to school for the fall semester 鈥� where they will be required, by state Public Education Department mandate, to use artificial intelligence programs that will be even more harmful to their developing brains, long term, than anything Zuckerberg has done.

What will the dollar amount be, I wonder, in the eventual lawsuit on behalf of the New Mexico kids whose brains are permanently neutered by AI? In our own schools, driven by our own public education system, no less?

Kids are in the classroom to learn how to learn; plugging them into this pernicious, untested tech at a young age (literally kindergarten), demonstrating for them that teachers and trusted adults use it without question, will ensure their minds never fully develop.

Using AI to try to help kids read better would be like trying to stucco your house with a flamethrower. Amira has got to go, and whatever other AI programs for school kids are coming next must be stopped in their tracks. I hope more school districts around the state as well as the next PED leadership team take decisive action before too many kids head down an irretrievably harmful path.

Tripp Stelnicki

Albuquerque

Who benefits from lower standards for lawyers?

So, now the state of New Mexico has joined Washington, New Hampshire, Oregon and Wisconsin in dropping the requirement of passing the bar exam to become a licensed attorney. Who could possibly benefit from that besides people who aren鈥檛 bright enough to pass the bar exam?

It is just another shameful liberal scheme to lower the overall moral standards of our society.

Equality levels the playing field; Equity lowers the quality of play.

Robert Christensen

Belen

Parents are responsible for children, not Meta

The judge got it wrong in his Meta ruling.

It is one thing for an uninformed and biased jury to get things wrong, but a judge should be invested in personal responsibility rather than the bank account of the defendant.

The real issue here is parental influence and control of what their children are involved in. This is no different than gun control. It is easier to go after wealthy gun manufacturers and put the blame on their product than to hold parents responsible for teaching their children gun safety.

Why is it not the same with social media? In fact this new advent of technology may prove to be even more dangerous than guns.

Gary Hays

Bernalillo

Urge representatives to support housing voucher program

A detail in an excellent local column (We can鈥檛 solve homelessness while making it harder to escape, Aug. 7 Sunday Journal) indicates that a voucher program helped the writer get a steady home. She might be using the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program, which helps about 4,000 families in Albuquerque.

Going by the national average, that鈥檚 only about a quarter of the elderly, disabled and other low-income people who qualify for the program. The wait list can be years long. In the meantime our neighbors who are retired, sick or unable to earn living wages are forced to make do with a patchwork of other services 鈥� meals, shelters, emergency medical care, etc. In the end this can cost more than monthly rent assistance.

We can help by letting our members of Congress know that the Housing Choice Voucher Program is important to our quality of life in Albuquerque. (Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury has signaled her interest in the plight of renters by her membership in the Congressional Renters Caucus.)  With the budget process still incomplete, call or write to our representatives and senators. Tell them to urge appropriators to increase funding enough to include 250,000 new vouchers in fiscal year 2027. We can鈥檛 afford to waste the talents of people like the author.

Roxanne Allen

Albuquerque

Deaths at Lovelace are the result of profit-driven medicine

The tragic death of Ashley Griego at Lovelace Women鈥檚 Hospital as reported in the Aug. 9 Sunday Journal unfortunately extends beyond the labor and delivery unit where it occurred. As an intensive care unit nurse at Lovelace Women鈥檚 Hospital for nearly a decade, I witnessed a series of preventable deaths that led me to discover, and to write about, the cause: for-profit, corporate ownership.

From 2002 until July 19, 2024, Lovelace was owned by private equity firms. The business model of private equity 鈥� often described as 鈥渃apitalism on steroids鈥� 鈥� is to buy successful companies, load them with debt, cut costs to maximize short-term profits, sell assets, extract wealth through fees and dividends, then resell them within three to five years. Private equity has infiltrated every aspect of healthcare: hospitals, emergency rooms, physician practices, and home care, hospice, eating disorders and autism services. The consequences have been understaffing, a decline in patient care quality, neglect and deaths.

The history of Lovelace Women鈥檚 Hospital is the loss of a mission-driven, community-centered hospital into the clutches of Wall Street that puts profits over patients.

John Kelly

Albuquerque

Vaccines save lives

I am a retired family physician, and a life-long resident of New Mexico (aside from part of my education out of state). My early research experience centered around growing and identifying viruses, work that was subsequently used in the development of vaccines against a class of viruses known as 鈥渆nveloped鈥� viruses.

During my early years of practice I experienced a meningitis outbreak while working in the emergency room at Milwaukee Children's Hospital in downtown Milwaukee. The virus attacked so quickly that parents would bring their child to the ER for evaluation of a fever, and the child would die before being carried from the door to a gurney or bed, without any intermediary stops.

I also experienced infectious outbreaks after starting practice in Ruidoso, so I was quite thankful for the vaccines that have been developed, studied and released.

Vaccines save lives, as well as bodily function. They hurt for a moment but can give long time protection against life-threatening infections or complications such as brain damage, deafness, paralysis. When combined vaccines can protect three to four serious infections in a single dose

For the life of me I do not understand how we can consider breaking vaccines apart, so as to give 15 鈥渏abs鈥� to children rather than five total and consider that an improvement. Let's protect our kids.

Arlene Brown

Ruidoso

Vasquez is standing up for the Gila

I want to thank U.S. Democratic Rep. Gabe Vasquez for hiking the Gila National Forest with conservationists near the Trout Fire burn area this July, and for speaking up about what U.S. Forest Service staffing cuts are doing to our public lands. He's right to sound the alarm.

Camping in Colorado and New Mexico last month, I had to change plans repeatedly to dodge wildfires and smoke 鈥� and the numbers show why. This year alone, firefighters have already responded to more than 45,000 wildfires that have burned over 5.5 million acres nationwide. In Colorado, the Aspen Acres fire near Pueblo has burned more than 100,000 acres and destroyed over 775 structures. Here in New Mexico, firefighters battled 15 separate lightning-caused fires across our national forests in just the first eight days of August as a weak monsoon leaves the landscape dangerously dry.

Trail-clearing crews that help establish fire lines are being lost at the exact moment we need them most, right as we hit peak fire season across the state.

The Forest Service protects the places we camp, hike and breathe. Cutting its staff and funding doesn't save money 鈥� it just moves the cost onto communities fighting bigger, more dangerous fires later.

I urge our representatives to fully fund the Forest Service, and I thank Vasquez for standing up for the Gila.

Elizabeth Moreland-Mason

Albuquerque