Turn AI Into Your Supervisor

you use AI to help organize your notes you use AI to help organize your notes fix your grammar suggest structure fix your grammar suggest structure that's very useful but you are using AI like a study buddy but you are using AI like a study buddy but you are using AI like a study buddy here is how to flip it use AI as a supervisor use AI as a supervisor that pushes back on your thinking that pushes back on your thinking instead of just helping you express it instead of just helping you express it don't use AI passively don't use AI passively students use AI very passively students use AI very passively help me organize this fix this paragraph suggest a structure suggest a structure these are useful but they are just support roles these are useful but they are just support roles these are useful but they are just support roles here is a very different approach here is a very different approach use AI to actively challenge your assumptions use AI to actively challenge your assumptions use AI to actively challenge your assumptions the way a supervisor would in 1 to 1 meeting the way a supervisor would in 1 to 1 meeting the way a supervisor would in 1 to 1 meeting not just generating new content for you not just generating new content for you but interrogating what you have already developed but interrogating what you have already developed but interrogating what you have already developed this is a fundamentally different use of AI this is a fundamentally different use of AI and it's where the real value is and it's where the real value is if you use AI as a study buddy you will say here is my argument you will say here is my argument help me phrase it better but if you are using AI as a supervisor but if you are using AI as a supervisor but if you are using AI as a supervisor you are saying here is my argument you are saying here is my argument find the weaknesses find the weaknesses push back and ask me hard questions push back and ask me hard questions the second one will make you think harder the second one will make you think harder and that's what a good supervisor will do and that's what a good supervisor will do not give you answers but ask you questions not give you answers but ask you questions that reveal gaps in your reasoning that reveal gaps in your reasoning it's very important because you will not always get supervisor time because you will not always get supervisor time you are usually walking alone with your reasoning you are usually walking alone with your reasoning untested AI if prompted correctly AI if prompted correctly can simulate that critical push back can simulate that critical push back catching weaknesses catching weaknesses before your actual supervisor or examiner does before your actual supervisor or examiner does before your actual supervisor or examiner does let me give you a few prompts I'm going to share my argument I'm going to share my argument don't help me improve the writing don't help me improve the writing instead identify every Assumption I'm making instead identify every Assumption I'm making that I have not explicitly stated or justified that I have not explicitly stated or justified list them as questions that I need to answer list them as questions that I need to answer and then AI will do its job and then AI will do its job another prompt I'm going to describe my methodology ask me the hardest questions a skeptical examiner would ask about a skeptical examiner would ask about why I made these choices why I made these choices don't be gentle AI will get to work let me give you a last one read this paragraph check if each sentence flows logically from the previous one identify any place where I've made a leap in reasoning identify any place where I've made a leap in reasoning without a good justification AI will get to work what you may get may be uncomfortable but it's good the discomfort is exactly what your examiner would have found too except that you now found it first I'll see you in the next one