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Here you can explore the book’s 21 chapters and 26 tools. Start with the five full exercises below: each gives you a thinking pattern to practise, a practical task and ways to examine what happens. More material will join them as we develop it.
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Five tools to put to work today
The Sketch
Put your own thinking on paper before asking AI for a proposal.
Try the full exercise Chapter 7Hybrid Mapping
Compare your map of a problem with AI’s. Investigate the differences.
Try the full exercise Chapter 8AI Avatar Dialogues
Explore a simulated perspective, then check it against the person’s actual work.
Try the full exercise Chapter 11CEEL
Build a claim with an explanation, evidence and a link back to the question.
Try the full exercise Chapter 17Five Fingers
Explain the problem, its cause, your plan, the resources and the benefits.
Try the full exerciseFind the chapter you need
Find your place in the book, then follow the links to the available material.
Part 1 · Introduction
Part 2 · Framework
ResponsAIbility
Seven rings of responsibility, and the obligations that reach beyond the person using AI.
4Introduction to Hybrid Intelligence
Meet Sage and explore what people and machines can contribute to a shared task.
5Manifesto of a Curious Child
What makes learning worth the effort? Begin with the learner’s own questions.
Part 3 · Hybrid Intelligence Techniques
The Power of the Sketch
Put your first thoughts on paper. Give the collaboration a starting point you can examine.
Full exercise 7Seeing Eye to AI
Map the same problem twice. See what the differences reveal.
Full exercise 8Neverending ConversAItions
Borrow a perspective, question your own, or improve the question before asking for an answer.
Full exercise 9From Puppet to Co-Curator
Choose how AI helps, especially when learning is part of the task.
Part 4 · Hybrid Intelligence Tools
Thinking in Layers
Give the question its context: purpose, people, constraints and the work around it.
11Building Blocks of Reasoning
Build an argument someone else can follow: claim, explanation, evidence and link-back.
Full exercise 12From Opinion to Well-Founded Argument
Give your opinion room to be examined. Connect the evidence into an explanation.
13Strategic Approaches to Argumentation
Ten arguments, three minutes. Choose the ones that belong in this conversation.
14Treat Your AI Well
Understand the position before challenging it. Find the disagreement you actually have.
15FrustrAItion
The answer is wrong again. Find what went missing before repeating the instruction.
16Matrix Relationships
Examine your stance towards AI. A deliberate choice can also be not to use it.
17Building Empires
Turn a large intention into a workable plan, then explain why it deserves support.
Full exercisePart 5 · CompensAItion
26 tools for thinking together
- AI Avatar DialoguesExplore a simulated perspective, then check it against the person’s actual work.Ch. 8
- Argument BricksTurn your arguments into pieces you can compare, test and rearrange.Ch. 13
- Argumentation StrategyDecide your aim. Select the arguments. Arrange them. Test the case.Ch. 13
- Arm’s-Length MiracleChoose one worthwhile action you can take with what is within reach.Ch. 21
- CEELBuild a claim with an explanation, evidence and a link back to the question.Ch. 11
- Co-curatingSelect, connect and shape AI’s contributions into work you understand.Ch. 9
- Columbo QuestionsAsk the apparently simple question that opens up the reasoning.Ch. 15
- Context and CriterionUnderstand the audience and agree what should decide the question.Ch. 13
- DetachmentPut some distance between yourself and an opinion you want to examine.Ch. 12
- Digital ScaffoldingChoose the support that helps you take the next learning step.Ch. 9
- Evidence TestsCheck whether the evidence is relevant, sufficient and trustworthy.Ch. 12
- Extra SpinExamine another way to understand the situation that is frustrating you.Ch. 15
- Five FingersExplain the problem, its cause, your plan, the resources and the benefits.Ch. 17
- Futures WheelTrace what a change could lead to, then follow the next consequences.Ch. 20
- Hybrid MappingCompare your map of a problem with AI’s. Investigate the differences.Ch. 7
- Inner DialoguesLet the competing parts of your thinking explain what they want.Ch. 8
- Matlock QuestionsTest the specific point you think you have understood.Ch. 15
- Matrix RelationshipsLook at the outcome and the relationship. Choose your stance towards AI.Ch. 16
- Meta-promptingAsk AI to help clarify the task before it starts solving it.Ch. 8
- Multi-Avatar SimulationsBring several simulated perspectives to one question. See where they disagree.Ch. 8
- Pearl NecklaceThe facts are pearls. Make the connections between them visible.Ch. 12
- Puppy RunningFollow a small curiosity and see where it takes your thinking.Ch. 21
- Strategic Thinking PyramidBuild a path from what matters to actions someone can take.Ch. 17
- The SketchPut your own thinking on paper before asking AI for a proposal.Ch. 6
- Thinking in NuancesLook for the conditions, differences and trade-offs hidden by a simple answer.Ch. 21
- Three-step ListeningShow you understand. Find common ground. Then explain the disagreement.Ch. 14
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