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Critical Thinking · Module 7

Critical Thinking in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence can now produce fluent, confident answers to almost any question in seconds. That makes critical thinking more important, not less. This module applies everything the subject has taught to living and reasoning well alongside capable machines — without either hype or doom.

You will learn to evaluate AI output, resist the pull to over-trust automation, tell real from synthetic media, use AI as a thinking partner rather than a replacement, guard against outsourcing your own reasoning, and hold on to the human judgment that machines cannot bear.

Lessons
7 lessons
Estimated time
~6-8 hours
Assessment
Module quiz included

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Lessons

Lesson 1 · 16 min

Critical Thinking in the Age of AI

Lesson 2 · 16 min

Can You Trust the Machine? Evaluating AI Output

Lesson 3 · 16 min

Automation Bias and Healthy Skepticism

Lesson 4 · 16 min

Telling Real from Fake in a Synthetic World

Lesson 5 · 16 min

AI as a Thinking Partner, Not a Replacement

Lesson 6 · 16 min

Cognitive Offloading and Keeping Your Edge

Lesson 7 · 16 min

Human Judgment in an Automated World

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Critical Thinking in the Age of AI — Module Assessment

14 questions · pass mark 75%

  1. 1.Why does the rise of fluent AI writing make critical thinking more important, not less?
  2. 2.What is the best plain-language description of how a large language model generates an answer?
  3. 3.An AI gives you a medical claim citing a specific 2019 journal study. What is the soundest next step?
  4. 4.Why can't you rely on an AI to tell you about events from last week?
  5. 5.Automation bias is best described as:
  6. 6.A driver follows GPS onto a clearly closed road and gets stuck. This illustrates:
  7. 7.The most durable way to judge whether a viral image is real is to:
  8. 8.The "liar's dividend" refers to:
  9. 9.Using AI as a "thinking partner" rather than an oracle mainly means:
  10. 10.Workplace research on AI assistants suggests the biggest benefit goes to users who:
  11. 11.The "Google effect" describes the tendency to:
  12. 12.Which offloading is most likely to erode your competence?
  13. 13.Why does final responsibility for a consequential decision remain human?
  14. 14.The Stanislav Petrov case (1983) is often cited as an example of:
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