Ai Salon: AI + Critical Thinking - Are We Outsourcing Our Minds?

​As AI tools become more capable—answering our questions, making decisions, and even offering advice—we’re confronted with a deeper question: What happens to our own thinking?

​In this AI Salon, we’ll explore the evolving relationship between AI and human reasoning:

• ​Is AI enhancing our critical thinking—or making us more passive?

• ​What skills will still matter when machines can “think” for us?

• ​How do we stay curious, skeptical, and informed in a world of confident AI answers?

​This is a participant-led conversation—no slides, no panels. Just real people in a room asking big questions together. Whether you’re an educator, technologist, student, or simply wondering how AI is shaping the way we make sense of the world, we invite you to join us.

​Bring your mind. Bring your questions. Let’s think together.

​The Ai Salon (https://aisalon.xyz/) is a global community founded in San Francisco focused on intimate, small-sized group discussions on the sociological, economic, cultural, and philosophical impacts and meaning of AI developments. We host small group discussions, all of which you can find on our calendar (https://lu.ma/ai-salon). You can find summaries of our previous conversations on our substack (https://aisalon.substack.com/).