AI Roundtable #27: Are We Thinking Less? AI, Critical Thinking, and Cognitive Responsibility (w/ The AI Collective KC & Voyage Consulting)
September 14, 2026
12:00pm–1:00pm Central Time
Via Zoom
AI can analyze, synthesize, and propose solutions in seconds. But as these tools shoulder more intellectual heavy lifting, are they sharpening our reasoning or quietly eroding it?
Join us for a candid, interactive roundtable examining the frontier of cognitive responsibility in an AI-assisted world.
What We Will Explore:
The Struggle vs. The Shortcut: When does AI enhance understanding, and when does it remove the productive friction required to truly learn?
Intellectual Rigor at Work: Practical ways teams can preserve skepticism, curiosity, and critical inquiry in automated workflows.
Cognitive Offloading: How to spot the line between leverage and atrophy before team capability degrades.
Participants will explore how individuals and teams maintain curiosity, skepticism, and intellectual rigor as AI becomes part of daily work.
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