Future Skills

Habits for checking what a model gives you: classify the claim, compare models, make the model attack its answer, verify every citation.

A team at the MIT Media Lab recorded brain activity in 54 people writing essays. The group using ChatGPT showed the weakest connectivity of the three.

A model rarely says it has no good answer. Prompt literacy is the discipline of asking in a way that makes a weak answer visible.

A field study of a service robot in a campus store found that perceived usefulness and the robot's way of speaking shaped acceptance. That transfers to prompting.

An AI researcher on what her students' best prompts had in common: tool choice, context down to the detail, and treating output as a draft.

An experiment with 758 BCG consultants showed a 25 percent speed gain. When in the work you reach for the model decides whether you get it.