Blog Post
September 20, 2025
AI Isn’t About One Answer—It’s About Seeing From Every Angle
AI isn’t just a tool for answers—it’s a tool for perspectives. From policy debates to scenario planning, discover how AI helps reframe issues by showing them from multiple angles (even a worm’s view in an apple). A practical look at perspective-taking with AI.
"To a worm in an apple, the world is an apple" - or rather change your perspective and see things in a new light.
The same story can look entirely different depending on where you look at it from.
AI is not a single-answer machine. I prefer using it to find multiple interpretations of the same issue. For example:
- I ask GPT to rewrite a policy brief from the perspective of someone opposed to it
- I prompt it to summarise a text in 3 versions: for a senior executive, a junior team member, and an external stakeholder
- I run the same dataset (Excel sheet) through two different models and compare their logic
- I ask it to generate best, base, and worst-case scenarios for a strategic decision
- I can simulate political debates by instructing GPT to take the position of party A, B, or C
- I can take a controversial issue and have it presented from both sides
AI's perspective-taking ability is remarkable. You can use it to personalize, customize, take the position of your opponent, your counterpart, a stakeholder, or any angle you can think of.
(The most fun exercise is to take the perspective of an inanimate object or animal and present a case from its perspective. E.g.: "You are a goose flying above two kayakers. What do you see?")
p.s.: give it a try. And if you need more in-depth ideas, we run workshops on this and more.
This was originally posted on Andras Baneth's LinkedIn account.
