AI can generate excellent answers, making it harder to know whether genuine thinking occurred.

The most important ideas often emerge through questioning, uncertainty, and cognitive friction.

Our cognitive fingerprint may reveal the human thinking behind the response.

I do a lot of thinking about thinking. So when artificial intelligence (AI) started producing answers that were genuinely good, I wasn't too worried about the answers themselves. I was worried about our ability to think.

This concern has escalated. AI gets it done, from an email to a clinical diagnosis to business strategy. And the output can often be excellent. But that's precisely the problem, because the artifact no longer tells you much about the person presenting it. Does today's AI output tell about the user or obscure that person behind a digital facade?

Questions and Answers

Voltaire said that we shouldn't judge people by their answers but by their questions. The attribution is uncertain, but the insight is spot on. But here's something almost counterintuitive about it, as we've always rewarded answers. School, work, and thought-leadership are largely organized around the production of correct responses. Questions were the stepping stone and answers the destination. But........

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