For teams
Critical thinking with AI
Assess the answer and examine your own reasoning
You use AI to gather information, draft a text or work out a proposal. The answer sounds logical and reads smoothly. But what is it based on? What information is missing? And did you ask the right question?
In this workshop you learn to examine AI answers. You also use AI to question your own assumptions and arguments. So you practise both sides: assessing what the tool gives you, and thinking about what you bring to it yourself.
In-company workshop · Half day · Dutch or English
Discuss your question →Does this sound familiar?
An AI answer is adopted without checking its key claims.
Sources are listed, but nobody has checked whether they exist and support the conclusion.
A prompt steers the answer towards the conclusion you already wanted to hear.
The text sounds certain, while it contains important assumptions or uncertainties.
The result is not so much that mistakes get made, but that thinking stops the moment the text looks finished. The workshop helps you pause on the quality of information before you use it in advice, a text or a decision.
Why this workshop now?
Generative AI produces language that sounds fluent, convincing and usable. That is exactly where the risk lies: teams can agree too quickly with reasoning that seems logical but is incomplete, generic or wrong.
When we outsource our thinking, we lose sight of:
- Which assumptions are hidden in an answer
- Which context, nuances and interests are missing
- Whether we are mistaking confident wording for evidence
- Where our own expertise is needed to judge
- How we still arrive at an independent position
AI makes strong thinkers more productive. But without critical judgement it also makes mediocre conclusions faster, more convincing and easier to reproduce. This workshop gives teams a shared language and a practical framework for spotting the difference.
The framework
The workshop builds on insights from three fields:
- Critical thinking (Diane Halpern; Richard Paul & Linda Elder)
- Cognitive psychology (Daniel Kahneman)
- Rhetoric — the age-old study of how language persuades, even when it is not meant to
We treat those standards and insights not as theory but as a working tool: a set of questions you put to every AI output. Not only “is this true?”, but also “why does this sound true?”
What you learn
In three hours you practise both sides of the story: assessing what the tool gives you and thinking about what you bring to it yourself.
Separating facts, assumptions and conclusions in AI texts
You mark what the answer claims and examine how the conclusion is reached. You choose which claims matter most for your task.
Checking sources and evidence — even when they look “neat”
You look up the original source and check whether it supports the claim. You practise what to do when evidence is missing or information contradicts itself.
Recognising your own thinking errors in combination with AI
You examine how your question and expectations steer the answer. You look at where you are mainly seeking confirmation, or mistaking persuasive wording for a strong argument.
Using AI to question your thinking, not to replace it
You ask for counter-arguments, missing information and alternative explanations. Those suggestions, too, you examine before you draw conclusions from them.
One question to put to every important output from now on:
Not only “is this true?”, but “why does this sound true?”
Who is it for?
This workshop suits teams that already use AI — or plan to soon — and want to make sure convenience does not come at the cost of quality, responsibility and professional judgement.
For example management and leadership teams; communications, marketing and content teams; HR, L&D and talent teams; strategy, policy and innovation teams; consultants, advisers and knowledge workers; and project teams that use AI to support decisions, analyses or client work.
No technical knowledge is needed. Curiosity, real cases and a willingness to look critically at your own thinking habits are.
Practical
- Duration
- 3 hours (half day)
- Format
- Interactive in-company workshop
- Language
- Dutch or English
- Group size
- Tailored to interaction and work on your own cases
- Location
- At your organisation or at an external venue
- Preparation
- Optionally, participants bring one concrete AI case, text or dilemma in advance
The first step
Book this workshop
Do you want your team not only to use AI faster, but also more critically, more sharply and more responsibly?
Plan an exploratory conversation about Critical Thinking with AI. Together we look at which cases, dilemmas and work contexts make the workshop most relevant for your organisation.
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