Beyond automation: How to think with AI
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In this video
What you'll learn
Run a 3 part dialogue loop with AI
A structured way to use AI as a sparring partner: unpack your own thinking, challenge assumptions, and refine logic.
Stress test ideas and arguments
9 methods to strengthen your ideas with counterarguments, reframing, and stakeholder role play.
Watch a live AI conversation demo
Watch Ann dialogue with AI and apply the methods in a conversation to work through real problems and decisions.
Why this topic matters
Most AI tutorials teach automation—offloading tasks and chasing “right” answers to speed up work. This talk covers the opposite.
Learn to go beyond using AI as an answer machine and use it to develop your own reasoning and sharpen your own outputs through socratic AI dialogue.
Watch live AI conversations that keep human judgment at the center and leave with a Conversation Patterns Playbook.
You'll learn from
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Amplify CEO, helping brands transform their work with AI
Ann is a design strategist who helps teams learn to use AI to deepen their work, not just accelerate output.
She teaches the Maven course AI for Strategic Research, leads AI for Teams trainings to design AI-supported workflows, and advises graduate design programs on integrating AI into curricula.
Ann is the founder of Amplify, a customer experience strategy studio that uncovers the “why” behind purchase decisions and designs seamless, high-conversion shopping journeys.
Go deeper with a course
AI for Strategic Research: Deepen Your Insights Without Automating Your Craft

Ann Conway
Founder & CEO of Amplify, helping leading brands use AI to transform their work
