Enhanced reasoning, metacognitive structures, national trust in AI, and more

📖In this issue

• Framework: LLM enhanced reasoning structures

• Massive disparities in trust in AI across nations

• Metacognitive perspectives on using GenAI

• Encouragement and training drive useful GenAI usage

• Podcast: AI for Strategy Compilation

💡Framework: LLM enhanced reasoning structures

Thought is a multi-step process, but rarely linear. Early LLMs lacked structured reasoning and often struggled with logic. Chain-of-Thought introduced sequences of LLM responses, immediately generating substantially better responses on complex structured tasks.

Following this innovation have been a number of significant developments in the structures that support “reasoning” in LLMs.

🧠🤖Humans + AI

Massive disparities in trust in AI across nations

Edelman’s latest Trust Barometer reveals major differences in trust in AI across countries. The most obvious is low AI trust in English-speaking/ Western European nations and far higher trust Eastern/ emerging economies, but there are a range of other pointed insights.

Edelman Trust Barometer Technology Sector Insights
Summary of key insights

Metacognitive perspectives on using GenAI

Metacognition is central to maximizing Humans + AI. A wonderful paper "The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI" (deserved winner of CHI24 best paper) provides specific insights into how a metacognitive perspective can improve our outcomes from use of GenAI.

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
Summary of key insights

Encouragement and training drive useful GenAI usage

A McKinsey report shows that In countries such as Australia, India, and Singapore employees are encouraged far more to use GenAI than in the US, according to McKinsey surveys. 84% outside of US say they are getting significant or full support from their employers to develop AI skills, compared to just over half in the US.

Superagency in the workplace: Empowering people to unlock AI’s full potential
Summary of key insights

🎙️This week’s podcast episode

Why you should listen

AI is reshaping the human-led complex cognitive processes of strategy that shape organizations and societies. These leaders share diverse, powerful, and practical insights in these carefully curated excerpts from our conversations.