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Stop Prompting AI. Start Directing It

Prompting is dead. Here's how teams are actually getting value from AI now.

Reporting by MIT Sloan Management Review 1 min brief
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Why it matters

A research-backed framework for moving beyond prompt engineering to 'directing' AI as a collaborative tool—shifting how knowledge workers integrate AI into analytical work and organizational decision-making.

The key facts

8 to know

  1. MIT Sloan research on AI-assisted discovery identifies four pathways for AI-generated insights

  2. Study examines organizations as 'algorithmic assemblages'

  3. Focuses on analytical work and organizational function, not technical capability

  4. Bridges gap between prompt engineering (old paradigm) and directed collaboration (new paradigm)

  5. MIT Sloan research on AI-assisted discovery identifies four pathways to surprising insights

  6. Study examines organizations as algorithmic assemblages

  7. Focuses on moving from prompt-centric to direction-centric AI interaction

  8. Qualitative research methodology on analytical workflows

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Publisher excerpt: James Yang/theispot.com The Research The authors drew on two streams of research for this article. The first was a qualitative study of AI-assisted discovery that identified four pathways by which AI generates surprising insights during analytical work.i The second stream was an examination of how…
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