AI-enhanced thinking, how educators use AI, benchmarking LLM predictions, augmenting humans, and more...

📖In this issue

• Framework: Domains for AI-Enhanced Thinking

• Humans + AI update: benchmarking LLM predictions, how educators are using AI, techniques for enhanced human-AI collaboration

• From Humans + AI Explorers Community:

• Humans + AI Podcast: Suranga Nanayakkara on augmenting humans, contextual nudging, cognitive flow, and intention implementation

💡Framework: Domains for AI-Enhanced Thinking

The primary role of AI should be to augment humans. This framework looks at the primary domains within cognition and action, from sense-making to decision-making, including a selection of some of the specific applications of AI to improving human capabilities. These should of course all be woven into Humans + AI workflows

🧠🤖Humans + AI

Prophet Arena: benchmarking AI prediction capabilities

A group at University of Chicago has created a benchmark for LLM performance on real-world forecasting tasks, with some extremely interesting findings, including that they can match or sometimes beat prediction markets.

Prophet Arena: A Live Benchmark for Predictive Intelligence
Summary of key insights

How university professors are using AI

Anthropic has released an interesting study on how tertiary education professors are using AI, based on both usage data and interviews, pointing to where and how the tools are used for both automation and augmentation.

Anthropic Education Report: How educators use Claude
Summary and key insights

Five cluster framework for Human-AI collaboration

A review paper on human-AI collaboration surfaces a range of interesting and useful insights, including on applying the ‘five cluster’ framework, building learning feedback loops steered by humans, and designing effective interfaces and workflows.

A Multifaceted Vision of the Human-AI Collaboration: A Comprehensive Review
Summary and key insights

🌐From Humans + AI Explorers Community

Selected highlights from Humans + AI Explorers Community (content for members, free membership options).

Our Sovereign AI Space led by Rawn Shah is developing an assessment of sovereign AI initiatives around the world (which will be published) and sharing latest news.

Dan Bashaw is sharing lessons learned from developing a framework and tool for assessing your AI attitudes in AI Positioning Matrix (a ‘Work Out Loud’ thread)

A post on A Personal Perspective on AI and the future of Work sparked a deep discussion on the evolving role of knowledge workers, cooperative models, and a variety of useful reference points for innovation in work.

Mary Daly hosted Chris Fox for a live event SPARK TANK #1 — From AI Strategy Platform to Practice: Chris Fox on Building with AI, sharing how AI can be applied in the strategy process.

A post from George Por, Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, led to a deep conversation on interpretations of the original poem and how AI can support human wisdom.

And far more!

🎙️This week’s podcast episode

Why you should listen

Suranga Nanayakkara runs the Augmented Human Lab, taking a deeply human perspective on using technology to assist and augment people, in overcoming disablities and improving cognition.