{"id":1053711,"date":"2024-07-03T05:21:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T12:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&p=1053711"},"modified":"2024-09-06T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:03:28","slug":"t4t","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/t4t\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools for Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tools for Thought<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Using AI to Enhance the Way We Think<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Much AI research focuses on solving specific tasks for people – generating content or automating processes. While such systems may be powerful, there are risks that this approach may bring to human cognition. They may impact the way people think and therefore learn, build skills, and grow expertise for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tools for Thought (T4T) team aims to put human cognition at the heart of our systems. Our goal is to help researchers and systems builders to focus not just on automation, but on augmentation<\/em>, imagining how AI might help people to think better<\/em>.  To this end, we research the impact of AI on aspects of cognition and use this to design and build systems that support individual and collective intentionality, enhance skills in critical thinking, and develop cultures of creativity and experimentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We imagine that AI can enhance human cognition, so that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n