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Skeptical Intelligence sits at the intersection of AI, organizational behavior, and the psychology of speaking up — with an angle for business, education, and workplace-culture coverage alike.
The story
Ted Ladd and Priyanka Shrivastava's research names a capability gap that most AI coverage misses: highly intelligent, emotionally skilled executives are still waving through dashboards and forecasts that deserve a harder look. Their survey research across six industries — and a first-of-its-kind measurement scale, the Skeptical Quotient — gives that gap a name and a teachable structure, with an added angle on gender differences in how people question versus verify AI output.
In the press
Ahead of the book, the underlying research has already been covered and presented publicly:
- Thinkers50: "Skeptical Intelligence: Disciplined Doubt for AI-Powered Innovation"
- Ted Ladd's ongoing Skeptical Intelligence series on Forbes
- A co-presented workshop at the Academy of Management's 86th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
For the full research program, visit skepticalintelligence.org.
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DownloadSuggested interview topics
- Why "critical thinking" has stretched to mean almost everything — and, as a result, almost nothing.
- Skeptical intelligence as a fourth capability alongside IQ, EQ, and AI itself.
- The eight-step Skeptics Playbook for questioning an AI-generated answer under real time pressure.
- What the research found about who tends to question and who tends to verify — and what it means for gender balance in AI-driven teams.
- The Skeptical Quotient: what it took to build a measurable scale for a "soft" skill.
- What leaders get wrong when they try to mandate "more skepticism" from their teams.
- How educators can teach skeptical intelligence alongside AI literacy.