System 2 Thinking

when you ask a large language model a question, it helps to ask it to ‘reason’ through its thinking. This is also known as chain of thought-prompting.

Like many of our all too human biases, anthropomorphizing is a thinking-trap that clouds our judgement. It may lead us to overtrust AI and voluntary suspension of disbelief, resorting to System 1 thinking when System 2 thinking is required. How beautifully ironic.

The concept of System 1 and System 2 thinking was introduced by the late Nobel Prize-winning Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman, in his best-selling book Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011). According to Kahneman, System 1 thinking in humans is intuitive and automatic. It allows people to make snap decisions based on previous experiences (thi... See more