TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

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Many AI tools focus on solving specific tasks like content generation or process automation. Though useful and powerful, these systems may affect how we think, learn, build skills, and develop expertise. We imagine how AI might help people to think better, so that: As well as getting the job done, it helps us better understand the job. As well as creating content, it helps us think more critically and with more insight. As well as seeking efficiency, it helps us create outcomes that are of higher quality because they are the product of better answers from better questions. As well as augmenting individual tasks, it augments collective workflows. As well as automating known processes, it helps organisations explore the unknown. We share principles for supporting cognition in any user experience, as well as new technologies that show what it means to support better thinking through AI.