Between the Prompts
Read Between the Prompts to gain the new literacy and collaborative mindset needed to transform predictable outputs into authentic, strategic outcomes. Assisting Intelligence provides a foundational framework for leveraging AI as a catalyst for growth and connection. We offer fresh ideas, practical tips, and inspiring stories to help you unlock AI's full potential. By staying current with the latest developments, we aim to equip you with the tools and knowledge necessary to navigate the complexities of an AI-driven world.
Mustafa Suleyman's Calculator
Mustafa Suleyman answers AI skeptics with speedy calculators. The Stanford AI Index and his own analogy point to warning signs he should slow down and read.
Libraries as the Edge of AI
Alberto Manguel saw a library ‘not as a place to preserve books but as a reader’s workshop’.
20 Questions with an AI
A new study in Science confirms what the Artificial Sophist framework predicted. AI sycophancy is getting harder to detect. That defense has to come from you.
Three Symptoms of the Same Cause
If you don't know what to prompt next, your hands may be on the wheel, but you are not driving. That's the clearest sign you've become a passenger. Three articles that point to our use of AI as the culprit.
Apple Turns 50 … Time to Clear Off the Table Again
An early Apple II ad offers a way to think differently about how we approach AI.
AI Assistants in Action
A Field Report on the Future of Corporate Learning. Here’s the question I always get: why not just use a GenAI? A general AI can certainly provide an answer. But it fails in three ways that matter.
OECD: Nepo Babies on Segways
The OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 is a 247-page examination of AI in education systems worldwide. The key finding: Receiving outputs without effort actively harms learning. The report also shows a better path. One where AI challenges us to achieve results we couldn’t reach alone.
Strategic AI Literacy Series
The five-part series teaches you to move from treating an AI like a content vending machine to treating it as a strategic assistant you direct.
Why Your AI Performance Requires a Critical Role
What happens when you release a high-performance technology without training, preparation, intention, or control? You get raw unmanaged speed colliding with an unknown and undirected course.
Don't Just Prompt. Engineer an Argument.
Look at this … What is it? A Car? A Joke? …
An AI-generated hallucination?
In 1933, Buckminster Fuller unveiled the Dymaxion car. With its teardrop shape and three wheels, the car wasn’t merely a vehicle; it was an argument. A defiant answer to a question most automakers ignored: “What could a car be?”
Overheard Through History 'That is not real Art’
Understanding AI's Place in Art Through History's Echoes. Explore the historical dismissal of new creative tools, from the printing press to AI, using the refrain 'That is not real art.' This essay argues AI is a tool, not the artist, emphasizing human intention in creativity.
The Illusion of Control
Employees are using AI, just not the corporate-prescribed kind. This Dickensian paradox—the gulf between corporate systems and personal-professional AI usage—is both stunning and a warning.
The AI Imperative: Reshaping Corporate Learning, Renewing Classical Wisdom?
Transform corporate learning with AI. Discover how fostering AI-driven dialogue moves beyond content overload to cultivate true wisdom and strategic judgment
What AI Is Taking—or What We’re Giving Away
We are reading less. Our attention is divided—subdivided—more than a coastal farm in Ireland. So much so that we no longer see the fields, only the walls. This fragmentation predates AI, but AI isn’t a remedy unless we shape it into one.
What Builds a Better Prompt? Try a Completed Crossword
Prompting isn’t about asking questions. It’s about presenting a completed puzzle. More specifically, a crossword—where the answers are already known, and the task is to infer the clues.
The Great One and the Generative One
Master AI in business by blending human intention with AI augmentation. Learn practical AI strategies inspired by Wayne Gretzky's "Great One" insights.
Corporate Learning and AI: Rethinking How We Grow
AI is reshaping how we learn—but will we use it to deepen understanding or merely accelerate content production? Explore the idea of how our core understanding ("thought") needs to guide the development of AI learning agents ("code") through frameworks.
We Are the Architects of AI's Future
Post Responding to LinkedIn and Project Liberty on Controlling AI Future
Curating AI Data Points 94|400|46|51
Four articles highlight a growing tension: leadership anxiety over AI governance clashes with employees’ rapid, often unsanctioned adoption of AI. Adding to this tension, the arrival of newer tools points to increasing complexities that organizations must address now.
The ‘AIghty’: Will Artificial Intelligence Upend the 80-20 Rule?
Will the promise of unprecedented productivity clash with the enduring value of human creativity and experience?

