Ideas before AI
When AI joins a brainstorm from the start, it sets the frame. People riff on what it suggests rather than where their own thinking goes. Try it when you suspect AI is quietly narrowing the range of ideas rather than expanding it.
How to run it
Run your brainstorm in two rounds. Human first, AI second. Then map the overlap and the gaps.
Pick a real question or challenge the team is working on.
Set a timer for 10 minutes. Everyone generates ideas independently, stickies or a shared whiteboard, no AI tools open.
Share and cluster what you have.
Either run the same prompt through an AI tool live, or reveal a set of AI-generated ideas you prepared in advance.
Add the AI ideas to the board in a different colour. Mark overlaps, note what only humans came up with, and what only AI came up with.
Recommended time
2 weeks.
What to notice
Are there whole clusters of human ideas that AI didn't produce?
Does doing it human-first change how people feel about their own ideas?
Any shift in how the team values its own thinking over time?
What this might move
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