Five Practices for Thinking Better with AI
Part 2 of “Why Intellectual Humility Is the Missing Skill in AI”
AI doesn’t just amplify productivity. It also amplifies your judgment. And bad judgment always scales faster than good judgment.
AI can make us smarter or help us make bad decisions faster, as I explained in part 1 of this series. Building AI fluency requires more than technical knowledge and practice. It requires you to confidently understand, question, and lead strategically around AI.
Here are five practices that separate AI fluency from AI theater.
1. AI Delegation Isn’t Always Efficient
AI sells you a fantasy: offload the tedious work and reclaim your time. But when you delegate your presence, you lose your influence.
I worked with a VP who started sending his AI notetaker to executive meetings instead of going himself. Soon, his AI was attending more meetings than he was. His calendar looked full. AI summaries piled up, unread.
Meanwhile, nothing got done. The team waited for him actually to show up. When he finally did, he disagreed with everything, and they had…
