The blog
Critical thinking in the age of AI.
Two streams: authored opinion & analysis on where AI meets judgement, and short field-note guides — one practical habit per RADAR dimension.
Opinion & Analysis
Authors' overview
A Chain of Thought Is Not a Train of Thought
Reasoning models narrate their steps, and so do we — but the resemblance is confabulation, not transparency, and the safety cases now built on the…
AI Strategy Is Only Precise Where You Can Be Proven Wrong
The vocabulary of transformers and agents is easy to borrow. A commitment a skeptic could falsify by Friday is not — and that line is what separates…
The AI Tautology Crisis Is a Data-Provenance Failure
Models are starting to learn from their own outputs while clean human text runs short — that recursive loop is real, measurable, and governable if…
GenAI Skill Erosion Is a Governance Problem, Not a Technology Verdict
Over-reliance on generative tools can dull writing, coding, and critical thinking — but the evidence points to use conditions, not the models…
Rehiring the Engineers AI Was Meant to Replace
The headlines read like AI eating crow — but the rehiring is a market discovering, by breakage, which human work was holding the building up.
Universities Guarantee Critical Thinking — If You Design for It
The campus is not a museum of tradition nor proof that AI has failed to replace professors — it is the institution we still rely on to carry critical…
Guides & field notes
Start here, and one habit per dimension.
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 both 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 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.