Doing some cheeky vibe‑coding over the holidays? If you’re building UI for AI, give your users the power of choice with Promptions (prompt + options). github.com/microsoft/Pr... Dynamically-generated controls end the frustration of endless typing and trial & error prompting.

If you care about the future of work with AI, take 15 minutes to be inspired by this thoughtful, amusing, and hopeful video. In his TEDAI Vienna talk, Advait Sarkar from our #ToolsForThought team pushes back against AI that thinks for us, and shows how AI can help us think better.

...and see this 📢 new call for articles for the forthcoming HCI Journal Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction: “Generative AI in Tools for Thought: Theory, Design, & Assessment.” tinyurl.com/t4tcfp Proposals due Oct 15 2025. Full papers due Jan 28 2026.

At #CHI2025, we ran a workshop on 🧠Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with #GenerativeAI What are the #HCI research+design opps in this space? 👉Read our new synthesis of the workshop: arxiv.org/abs/2508.21036

Join us at CHI 2025 to explore how AI systems can be used as Tools for Thought as we reimage AI’s role in human thinking. Learn about new research, prototypes, and a workshop on designing AI that supports critical thinking, decision-making, and creativity: msft.it/6016qhMFs

Our short piece in the USC Annenberg 2025 Relevance Report proposes that the next #ResponsibleAI challenge is to develop #ToolsForThought - AI systems that protect and augment human judgement. Look out for our upcoming #chi2025 papers and workshop at aka.ms/toolsforthou...