The Cognitive Amplification Engine: Learning to Think Better

This book describes a way of thinking, not a tool.

It argues that artificial intelligence is not intelligent, that fluent output is not understanding, and that the real risk in human-machine interaction is not that machines will replace us-but that we will stop thinking clearly while using them. The central idea of the book is cognitive amplification: using tools to extend human reasoning while preserving human judgment, intent, and responsibility.

Methods like this, however, face a practical...