Is AI flattening your team’s creativity? Here’s how to tell.
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AI's tendency to produce instant 'good enough' answers is enabling a form of satisficing that risks flattening team creativity, inducing groupthink, and causing cognitive atrophy. Research shows LLM-heavy users exhibit weaker neural engagement and struggle to recall their own reasoning. Atlassian's Teamwork Lab introduces an AI Collaboration Framework to help teams consciously dial between AI-first and human-first thinking. Practical recommendations include setting AI working agreements, capturing human thinking before prompting AI, protecting deep work time, and running AI retrospectives to evaluate where AI helped versus anchored thinking prematurely.
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Why over‑reliance on AI is risky: three evidence‑backed pitfallsThe AI Collaboration Framework: a tool to protect your team’s right to thinkPutting the framework to work: practical guidance for teamsSort: