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Anthropic20 min lesson

Question a convincing answer

Learn to question the result, approach and confident tone.

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Question the answerAI responseIs it correct?[1]Is the approach useful?[2]Is the tone appropriate?[3]Check before you trustClaude

Why we chose it.

It makes checking the answer a skill to practise, not a warning at the end.

Beginners ready to evaluate an answer instead of accepting its confident tone.

What to take away.

Look at the result, the approach and the interaction separately. A polished answer can still miss an important constraint.

Put it into practice.

Compare a summary with its source. Explain each unsupported detail in your own words.

Review a summary against its source

Original resource: A closer look at Discernment, by Anthropic, Rick Dakan and Joseph Feller.

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