Richard Banks

@advaitsarkar.bsky.social spoke about our team's work on the impact of AI on critical thinking at TEDai. The talk has just gone live. Worth a watch.

Promotional flyer for the CHI'25 Workshop, "Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI," happening April 26, 2025, in Yokohama, Japan. Submission deadline: February 13, 2025, AoE. Workshop website: [https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop](https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop). Key topics: theories and perspectives for understanding, protecting, and augmenting thinking with GenAI; challenges in designing GenAI systems; measuring GenAI's impact; its effect on human skills and workflows; and guidelines for designing protective and augmentative GenAI systems. Organizers include experts from Microsoft Research, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Tableau, University of Toronto, IBM Research, UCL, and Stanford. Logos of these institutions and the CHI 2025 logo appear at the bottom. The flyer features an illustration of a pensive person with a crowned bird on their head and the text "TOOLS FOR THOUGHT."

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The Tools for Thought team, that I'm a part of (aka.ms/toolsforthou...) contributed to the USC Annenberg Relevence Report on AI. Released annually from the Center for Public Relations. A great report, with a lot of diverse writers, including Microsoft's very own Steve Clayton. Worth a look.