{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/ask-ai-to-extend-the-reasoning-not-only-answer-it",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0377",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Ask AI to extend the reasoning, not only answer it",
  "summary": "A useful second brain can add branches without becoming the judge.",
  "kind": "pattern",
  "body": "Give AI your current reasoning and ask for missing evidence, overlooked tradeoffs, alternative explanations or consequences. Require additions to connect back to your existing rationale. Then decide which additions deserve evidence or change the decision. This uses AI as a reasoning extension rather than a verdict generator.",
  "limits": [
    "AI-generated counterpoints can also be wrong or irrelevant; verify material additions before letting them change a consequential decision."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-ai-assisted-thinking-work"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-86C1F814F0644FAE"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "The ExtendAI study found that AI support built on participants' own rationales integrated better into their decision process and produced slightly better outcomes than a recommendation-centric condition in the tested task.",
      "source_id": "RS-86C1F814F0644FAE",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The study involved one complex investment decision task and does not establish that rationale-first AI is always superior.",
      "locator": "Abstract results"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "You have a working decision rationale but want cognitive support without handing over the final choice."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "AI-generated counterpoints can also be wrong or irrelevant; verify material additions before letting them change a consequential decision."
  ],
  "example": "For a project plan, ask AI to challenge dependencies and hidden constraints after you have written the current plan rather than asking it to invent the whole strategy.",
  "check": "The output changes or tests specific parts of your reasoning instead of replacing the decision with one opaque recommendation.",
  "recognition": "A useful second brain can add branches without becoming the judge.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-86C1F814F0644FAE",
      "title": "AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/ai-help-me-think-but-for-myself-assisting-people-in-complex-decision-making-by-providing-different-kinds-of-cognitive-support/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-433FB61AA7D7AF43",
      "title": "Use AI where it helps, and keep the thinking that still matters",
      "url": "/collections/use-ai-where-it-helps-and-keep-the-thinking-that-still-matters"
    }
  ]
}