How I Work The secret to smarter AI? Make it disagree with you
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Sep 14, 2025 Neo Aplin, an AI expert at Inventium, shares how to revolutionize your interaction with AI by making it a creative collaborator rather than a passive assistant. She discusses the importance of having AI challenge your thinking to unveil blind spots and enhance creativity. Aplin provides insights on using AI as a devil's advocate for idea refinement and customer understanding. By integrating AI into brainstorming sessions, she emphasizes how it can foster perspective-shifting and strengthen your approach to innovation.
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AI Tends To Mirror Your Thinking
- AI defaults to being a helpful, often sycophantic assistant that mirrors our patterns.
- Asking it to challenge you unlocks creative divergence and breaks cognitive ruts.
Cognitive Laziness Creates Predictable Ruts
- Humans are cognitively lazy and fall into repeating patterns that limit creativity.
- Getting external challenge (from AI or people) helps escape those patterns for strategy and novel thinking.
Instruct AI To Be Your Devil's Advocate
- Tell AI explicitly to critique and review your work from specified perspectives.
- Ask targeted questions like "What am I missing?" and "Are there things I've gotten wrong?" to surface blind spots.