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Lev Tankelevitch
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HCI and behavioural science research @ Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously at the Behavioural Insights Team, and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford.
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Can't think of a better time for this talk...My teammate
@advaitsarkar.bsky.social has made a powerful case for why we should design AI to augment our🧠 rather than think for us. Moreover, we have a vision for how we might get there.If you want to know what our Tools for Thought team has been up to👇
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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At #CHI2025, we ran a workshop on 🧠Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with #GenerativeAI

What are the #HCI research+design opps in this space?

👉Read our new synthesis of the workshop:
arxiv.org/abs/2508.21036
Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop
Generative AI (GenAI) radically expands the scope and capability of automation for work, education, and everyday tasks, a transformation posing both risks and opportunities for human cognition. How wi...
arxiv.org
August 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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🙌🏻 Getting everyone moving and sharing perspectives along our human spectrogram at our #CHI2025 workshop on Tools for Thought & GenAI 🧠 #toolsforthought

ai-tools-for-thought.github.io/workshop/
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April 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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How does using GenAI tools reshape knowledge workers’ critical thinking? Our #CHI2025 paper studied 319 knowledge workers to dive into this question. w/@advaitsarkar.bsky.social @levlevlev.bsky.social Ian, Sean, Richard, Nick @msftresearch.bsky.social @hcii.cmu.edu

www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
March 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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📢 per popular demand, we've extended our submission deadline for our #CHI2025 workshop to Thurs Feb 20th AoE 🙂
levlevlev.bsky.social Lev Tankelevitch @levlevlev.bsky.social · Feb 5
Just over a week left to apply to our #CHI2025 #workshop on Tools for Thought 👇👇👇
levlevlev.bsky.social Lev Tankelevitch @levlevlev.bsky.social · Jan 13
📣#CHI2025 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

🌐https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop
🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE

#HCI #cogsci #AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI
February 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Just over a week left to apply to our #CHI2025 #workshop on Tools for Thought 👇👇👇
levlevlev.bsky.social Lev Tankelevitch @levlevlev.bsky.social · Jan 13
📣#CHI2025 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

🌐https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop
🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE

#HCI #cogsci #AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI
Promotional flyer for the CHI'25 Workshop, "Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI," happening April 26, 2025, in Yokohama, Japan. Submission deadline: February 13, 2025, AoE. Workshop website: [https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop](https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop). Key topics: theories and perspectives for understanding, protecting, and augmenting thinking with GenAI; challenges in designing GenAI systems; measuring GenAI's impact; its effect on human skills and workflows; and guidelines for designing protective and augmentative GenAI systems. Organizers include experts from Microsoft Research, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Tableau, University of Toronto, IBM Research, UCL, and Stanford. Logos of these institutions and the CHI 2025 logo appear at the bottom. The flyer features an illustration of a pensive person with a crowned bird on their head and the text "TOOLS FOR THOUGHT."
February 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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📣#CHI2025 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

🌐https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop
🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE

#HCI #cogsci #AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI
Promotional flyer for the CHI'25 Workshop, "Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI," happening April 26, 2025, in Yokohama, Japan. Submission deadline: February 13, 2025, AoE. Workshop website: [https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop](https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop). Key topics: theories and perspectives for understanding, protecting, and augmenting thinking with GenAI; challenges in designing GenAI systems; measuring GenAI's impact; its effect on human skills and workflows; and guidelines for designing protective and augmentative GenAI systems. Organizers include experts from Microsoft Research, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Tableau, University of Toronto, IBM Research, UCL, and Stanford. Logos of these institutions and the CHI 2025 logo appear at the bottom. The flyer features an illustration of a pensive person with a crowned bird on their head and the text "TOOLS FOR THOUGHT."
January 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM