Cognitive Security
As powerful as these new AI/LLM systems are, not used well, you will get one-shotted.
Cognitive Security: protecting your ability to think clearly, reason independently, and form conclusions that are actually yours
This is a topic I think about and practice regularly.
Here's an example prompt I've developed for exploring making business decisions.
This can be used by providing some business context and a simple query.
For example purposes, here's some business context.
Here's a naive conversation using only the business context.
And here is the exact same naive prompt along with the CogSec Prompt.
What I notice here is that the naive response isn't terrible. But after answering the questions posed by Claude in the CogSec converastion and reviewing the response it's clear how different things can be.
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