Have AI Disagree With You

Prompt AI to produce arguments, personas, or data that oppose your current plan or belief so you encounter unlikely counterexamples and hidden failure modes. Using AI this way (as friction) helps professionals keep critical thinking skills active and generates novel, practical improvements to designs, writing, and legal or policy reasoning. — If adopted widely, this reframes AI from a convenience that invites cognitive offloading into a tool for institutional learning, audit, and resilience across universities, firms and courts.