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"To a worm in an apple, the world is an apple" - or rather change your perspective and see things in a new light.

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The same story can look entirely different depending on where you look at it from.

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AI is not a single-answer machine. I prefer using it to find multiple interpretations of the same issue. For example:

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- I ask GPT to rewrite a policy brief from the perspective of someone opposed to it

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- I prompt it to summarise a text in 3 versions: for a senior executive, a junior team member, and an external stakeholder

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- I run the same dataset (Excel sheet) through two different models and compare their logic

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- I ask it to generate best, base, and worst-case scenarios for a strategic decision

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- I can simulate political debates by instructing GPT to take the position of party A, B, or C

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- I can take a controversial issue and have it presented from both sides

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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.

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(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?")

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p.s.: give it a try. And if you need more in-depth ideas, we run workshops on this and more.

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This was originally posted on Andras Baneth's LinkedIn account.

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