critical-thinking.uk · a resource for the AI age
Is it still you doing the thinking?
AI is fluent, confident, and endlessly agreeable. This is a free resource on keeping your own judgement in the loop — starting with a quiet, seven-minute reading of how you do it now.
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Five ways your critical thinking meets the machine.
RADAR is the framework behind the reading: a way to name where judgement holds and where it slips when you work with AI. Read how it works →
From the blog
What is critical thinking — and how to keep it.
What is critical thinking?
A clear, modern definition — the core mental moves, what it isn't, and why a fluent, agreeable AI makes the skill more valuable, not less.
RelianceKnow what AI is actually good at
Calibrated trust beats blanket faith and blanket suspicion. A quick test for which questions to hand over.
AutonomyThink first, prompt second
Form your own view before you ask, or the model's first answer quietly becomes your anchor.
DetectionEvery figure is a claim, not a fact
Why a precise, real-looking citation is exactly the shape a fabrication takes — and the check that catches it.
AwarenessAsk neutrally, then ask for the opposite
If you only request the case for, you'll only ever get the case for. How framing quietly writes the answer.
ResistanceWhen it flatters you, that's the cue
Agreement from an agreeable machine isn't evidence. The moment to go looking for the view you don't want.
For teams
Steer — the RADAR reading, for organisations.
The public reading is for individuals. Steer turns the same framework into a capability for your organisation: team-level readings, benchmarking across functions, and training aimed squarely at the dimensions where judgement is slipping.