Catch Yourself Deferring

You work through moments where the fast, fluent answer invites you to stop thinking, and you practice the pause that keeps the judgment yours.

Take a Fluent Answer Apart

You take output that reads like expertise and test it against what is actually known, learning to tell the cadence of confidence from the fact of accuracy.

Rebuild the Verification Habit

You practice the routine that keeps independent reasoning in the loop, so the machine informs the work without quietly replacing it.

About the course

You know AI answers fast and writes well. This workshop is where you practice not being carried by it. Two hours of hands-on exercises, built for professionals who use AI every day and want their own judgment to stay sharp while they do. You work on the exact situations that trip careful people. An answer that arrives fluent and certain. A claim that sounds settled because the machine sounded sure. A workflow where the reasoning has quietly migrated from you to the tool. Each exercise gives you the pause and the test that put you back in control of the conclusion. This is the practitioner tier, so the emphasis is on doing. You leave with a working habit of critical thinking, not just an awareness that you need one.

Practice catching the reflex to defer to a fluent answer, in the moment it happens.

Learn to take an AI output apart and test it the way you would test any other claim.

Build a verification habit that keeps your judgment in the loop as AI moves through your work.

Sean Mahon

A senior intelligence professional with over 20 years of experience across military intelligence, KYC/AML compliance, open-source intelligence instruction, and forensic due diligence. He has directed analytical teams in regulated, high-stakes environments where incomplete or misattributed information can have significant operational and legal consequences. As the founder of The Collective Risk Intelligence, he provides structured, evidence-based due diligence and investigative analysis to law firms, private equity firms, investment firms, and high-net-worth individuals. His expertise lies at the intersection of investigative intelligence, identity verification, and litigation support, where the standard of proof is uncompromising. The course content is derived from analytical methodologies used in real-world engagements rather than theoretical frameworks developed in academic settings.

What You'll Work Through

Two hours of hands-on work, from how AI fails to a validation habit you can run every day.  •  Understanding How AI Fails: The Six Key Risks  •  Applying a Critical Thinking Framework to AI Outputs  • Operationalizing Validation: The VCCD Workflow  • Integrating Critical Appraisal into Daily Workflows  • Scored Assessment (80% to pass) The certificate and downloadable job aids unlock on completion. Drawn from real engagements, reworked for practice.

Keep Your Judgment in the Loop.

Critical Thinking for AI Users is a two-hour practitioner workshop. Enroll now and build the habit that keeps the thinking yours.

$179.00

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