Jay Dixit
Jay Dixit is a writer, speaker, and educator, and the creator of the Socratic approach to AI: a framework for using AI as a thinking partner that draws out human creativity rather than replacing it.
I went back to school and got my MFA in creative nonfiction. I started teaching writing at Yale (a senior seminar of my own creation called The Art of Storytelling). And I worked at OpenAI as Head of Community for Writers, steering writers, students, and educators away from using AI to generate slop and toward using it to elicit their OWN creativity.
Socratic AI
I founded Socratic AI to show people there's another way to use AI: not as a content generator and work-doer-for-youer, but as a thinking partner that pushes us to aim higher and do our best work.
I call it the Socratic approach to AI: using AI to support, inspire, and elicit human creativity WITHOUT ever outsourcing the writing, the ideas, or the thinking to the machine.
My litmus test for whether your use of AI is Socratic: Does using AI get more of yourself and your ideas onto the page, or less?
Explore Socratic AIThe Socratic AI Substack
My own writing on Substack: my ideas, techniques, examples, and field notes about a better way to use AI — not as a content generator, but as a thinking partner to push you to aim higher and do your best creative work.
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