Brent A. Anders grounds critical thinking in John Dewey's reflective thought and the Delphi Report's focus on interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference and explanation. He argues that generative AI should provoke those skills rather than become a shortcut around them.
His five methods turn AI into a Socratic interrogator, a steelman for opposing viewpoints, a mapper of assumptions and fallacies, a scenario stress tester and an adversarial red team. Each method asks the user to expose reasoning to scrutiny instead of accepting the first fluent answer.
Brent recommends doing the initial thinking before bringing AI into the process, then using targeted prompts to test logic and evidence while retaining human judgment. Book, course and subscription promotions are omitted from the editorial summary.
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