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Thinking with AI: A framework for active engagement

Mar 6, 2025

in AI, Clinical, Education, Learning

active collaboration, active engagement, active reading, AI collaboration, human-AI collaboration, passive consumer, thinking partner

Thinking with AI requires intentional engagement rather than passive consumption. This post presents a four-level framework—from using AI as a sounding board to developing systematic comparative analysis—to help health professions educators maintain active collaboration with AI tools while preserving human agency and critical thinking skills.
Being inaccurate isn’t the same as being useless

Nov 18, 2024

in AI

accuracy, conversation partner, critical thinking, factual accuracy, openai, Oracle AI, reasoning partner, thinking partner

New research on AI model factual accuracy shows that while language models struggle with certain difficult questions, this doesn’t diminish their value as thinking partners. Like human conversations, where perfect accuracy isn’t required for productive discussion, AI’s occasional inaccuracies don’t prevent it from being a useful collaborative tool.