Critical Thinking in the Age of AI: A Framework for Rational Decision-Making (Rational Thinking)

By Daisuke Shoka

You can't outsmart AI by knowing more. AI already knows more than you ever will.

What only humans can do - and must keep doing - is decide what counts as "right."

This book teaches you how.

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Critical Thinking in the Age of AI presents a systematic framework for rational decision-making, built around eleven concrete conditions that any sound argument must meet. Unlike books that offer "tips" or "hacks," this is a foundational text: it teaches the structure of rationality itself, so you can apply it to any decision, in any domain.

What you'll learn: How to distinguish three types of questions - value, factual, and action - and why mixing them is the most common reasoning failure todayHow to evaluate any decision / argument using the Question / Claim / Premises structureHow to recognize and resist authoritarianism in your own thinking - including the new form, "AI authoritarianism," that will dominate the 2030sWhere AI helps and where it cannot replace human judgmentHow to use Custom AI as a thinking partner, with ready-made custom instructions available on the companion website---

This book is for: Professionals who make consequential decisions and want a defensible frameworkEducators and researchers who teach critical thinking and want a more systematic approach than "spot the fallacy"Anyone who senses that AI is changing how we think - and wants to understand how to keep thinking for themselves
Volume 1 of the Rational Thinking series. Subsequent volumes will cover the remaining conditions of rationality.

Originally published in Japanese (2024) as Shikō no Susume. This English edition is fully revised, with new material on AI throughout.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4911380063
• ISBN13: 9784911380062
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Liffel Inc.
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"