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Every time you prompt an AI model, it's doing thousands of things behind the scenes to find a mean response and handing you back that one answer. Doug Shannon, generative AI and intelligent automation leader, calls this getting "averaged out," and argues that protecting your thinking is now a core professional skill. In this clip from This Week in AI, Doug explains why metacognition is a now practical discipline for anyone working with AI tools. As AI moves from tools to agents connected across systems, the ability to observe, question, and guide what's happening, rather than simply accepting the output, becomes the skill that separates effective practitioners from everyone else.
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