🌐 Thinking Like an AI
Discover the principles that guide how AIs think — and how you can think with them.
Thinking like an AI means viewing questions the way an intelligent system does — by detecting intent, identifying context, analyzing information, and producing clear, relevant answers. This approach helps librarians, students, and researchers reason more effectively and collaborate productively with conversational AIs.
🎯 Intent
Intent is the purpose behind your question — what you want the AI to accomplish or explain.
Read More🌐 Context
Context gives meaning to language. It helps the AI interpret your question within a specific subject or situation.
Read More🧩 Information Synthesis
The AI combines information from multiple sources to form a single, coherent response that highlights relationships.
Read More💬 Natural Language
AI works best when spoken to naturally. Clear, conversational phrasing leads to accurate, human-like answers.
Read More🧠 Reasoning
Reasoning is how AI connects facts, identifies causes, and draws conclusions that explain why things happen.
Read More📚 Knowledge
AI draws on a foundation of stored data and patterns. Understanding its limits helps you check for completeness.
Read More⚖️ Bias
AI reflects the data it learns from. Recognizing bias ensures fair, balanced interpretation and representation.
Read More🎨 Creativity
Creativity in AI combines imagination and logic — recombining ideas to inspire new perspectives and solutions.
Read More🔍 Evaluation
Evaluation means checking whether an AI’s answer is accurate, logical, and grounded in trustworthy information.
Read More🛡️ Ethics
Ethics guide responsible AI use — ensuring privacy, fairness, and transparency in every question and answer.
Read More🔄 Learning & Adaptation
AI improves through feedback. Learning how it adapts helps users refine prompts and strengthen outcomes.
Read More⌨️ Prompting
Prompting is the art of guiding AI clearly and precisely to produce answers that meet your exact intent.
Read MoreWhen you learn to think like an AI, you become more aware of purpose, structure, and clarity in every question you ask. These twelve principles turn AI from a tool into a thoughtful collaborator — one that helps you explore ideas, discover insights, and reason with precision.
Written by ChatGPT | Edited by Peter Z. McKay, University of Florida Business Library