Can't think of a better time for this talk...My teammate @advaitsarkar.bsky.social has made a powerful case for why we should design AI to augment our🧠 rather than think for us. Moreover, we have a vision for how we might get there.If you want to know what our Tools for Thought team has been up to👇

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

🙌🏻 Getting everyone moving and sharing perspectives along our human spectrogram at our #CHI2025 workshop on Tools for Thought & GenAI 🧠 #toolsforthought ai-tools-for-thought.github.io/workshop/

How does using GenAI tools reshape knowledge workers’ critical thinking? Our #CHI2025 paper studied 319 knowledge workers to dive into this question. w/@advaitsarkar.bsky.social @levlevlev.bsky.social Ian, Sean, Richard, Nick @msftresearch.bsky.social @hcii.cmu.edu www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

📢 per popular demand, we've extended our submission deadline for our #CHI2025 workshop to Thurs Feb 20th AoE 🙂

Just over a week left to apply to our #CHI2025 #workshop on Tools for Thought 👇👇👇

📣#CHI2025 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI 🌐https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop 🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE #HCI #cogsci #AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI