As we rush headlong into embracing AI and find new and exciting ways to make it work, we risk abandoning our capacity and responsibility to think critically. The ultimate outcomes will be profound. However, we’ve been on this path for some time. For decades, we have increasingly handed the processing of information to computers. According to Dr Richard Larson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, the result is that when faced with a new problem, we often lack the ability to frame and formulate it using basic principles. His solution is what he ingeniously calls ‘model thinking’, and in the throes of a much-vaulted AI revolution, it is refreshing and, in one significant respect, counter-revolutionary.
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