✍️ Let AI Interview You

About this episode

The episode discusses using AI as a thinking partner through a technique called the Socratic interview.

The following is a guest post by Jay Dixit , founder of Socratic AI Most people treat AI like a question-answering machine: Ask a question, get an answer. What is chili crisp, and why is Gen Z so obsessed with it? What’s the best starting guess for Wordle? What’s the best time of day to post on LinkedIn? (My own real queries from today.) There’s nothing wrong with using AI to get answers to your questions. But there’s another mode of interacting with AI that many people never consider — one I find much more useful for my creative process. Here’s what I do instead: I flip the script and let the AI ask the questions for a change. Instead of prompting AI, I get the AI to prompt me. You may have heard Jeremy call this technique the “reverse interview,” and he’s previously written about it as a tool for reflection. You might use reverse interviewing, say, to conduct a soul-searching interview about what you want from your career . I take that same role reversal and apply it to the writing process. I call it the “Socratic interview.” It’s the foundational technique I teach for using AI as a thinking partner instead of a content generator. It’s also what inspired the name of my company…

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Caplan

Guest: Jay Dixit

Topics covered

• AI interaction
• creative process
• writing techniques
• reverse interview
• Socratic method

Keywords

• AI
• interview
• writing
• Socratic method
• creative process
• reflection
• reverse interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Socratic AI, Narratively Academy

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