AI Literacy
Developing the judgement to work with AI deliberately, and giving the knowledge it produces somewhere to land.
9 answers
- What is AI literacy?AI literacy is not tool training. An honest definition: capability, limitation, delegation, and the judgement to notice what a system never saw, plus where the EU's literacy obligation has landed.
- Why does AI literacy matter for organisations?Individual AI gains are real; firm-level gains keep failing to show up. The missing link is what literate work produces, and whether the organisation keeps any of it.
- What does it mean to work with AI rather than just use it?The practice of working with AI collaboratively is well covered. The harder question is what that practice produces, and what happens to the knowledge it surfaces when the session ends.
- What is the 4D AI Fluency Framework?Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence: the Dakan/Feller framework explained, including why prompting is a fraction of fluency and where individual fluency hits its limit.
- How do I know when to trust AI output?Trust the task, not the tool, and notice the part that's your fault. Why fluency isn't evidence, why the question's neutrality decides the answer's reliability, and a working method for calibration.
- What is cognitive surrender and how do I avoid it?Cognitive surrender is the slow slide from using AI to think faster to using it instead of thinking. What the research shows, why it's invisible from the inside, and the habits that push back.
- How do AI agents and human teams work together?Not a staffing change but a design change. What carries over from good team design, what genuinely changes with agents, and the shared-context assumption that quietly breaks.
- What is prompt engineering, and do I still need it?Yes, but demoted. Phrasing craft faded as models improved; specification didn't. Why the prompt stopped being the lever, and where the skill actually moved.
- What does it mean to delegate to an AI agent?Delegation is the transfer of task, context, authority, and a return condition, not just assignment. Why delegating to an agent is harder than to a person, and where it becomes abdication.