AI tools that support critical thinking; not-knowings, on demand; organisational interventions for uncertainty; subliminal learning, K4, satisfying toys, cat trains, bromism, and convincing others.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
Current AI interfaces lull us into thinking we’re talking to something that can make meaningful judgments about what’s valuable. We’re not — we’re using tools that are tremendously powerful but nonetheless can’t do“meaningmaking” work (the work of deciding what matters, what’s worth pursuing). I developed and tested with first-year undergraduates a pen-and-paper prototype designed to isolate the core mechanisms for thinking critically while using AI tools. Participants used ...| Vaughn Tan
tl;dr: Instead of building tools that are designed to generate outputs indistinguishable from human outputs, we should be building AI tools that focus on helping users learn to do meaning-making: The work of making inherently subjective decisions about the subjective and relative value of things. AI companies, businesses, governments, NGOs, and universities are now ploughing ever huger amounts into building AI tools that generate outputs (like passages of text, code, images, audio, and video)...| Vaughn Tan
As I wrote previously, I’m building a course on public sector strategy for public servants. I’ve been hard at work setting up the course structure but I also wanted to more fully articulate its underlying logic and motivation. The structure of an intensive public strategy course. Public strategy isn’t good enough right now Public sector organisations are failing at strategy. Not because they lack smart people or good intentions, but because they’re using the wrong tools for the job. T...| Vaughn Tan
