Erica Dhawan

Author of USE YOUR BRAIN (Jan 2027) + DIGITAL BODY LANGUAGE. Award Winning CEO Coach. Leadership Keynote Speaker. On a mission to THINK DEEPER in AI age

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

HERE IS TO US THRIVING IN A NEW WORLD.

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[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

We're raising a generation of cognitive passengers where...

Every problem solved for them.
Every struggle smoothed.
Every answer pre-fetched.

The fix is tolerating their struggle long enough for thinking to happen.

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

MIT analyzed over 300 enterprise AI deployments and found that 95% are getting zero return.

Not low. Zero.

$40 billion invested, and almost none of it moves the P&L.

We're buying software to solve a thinking problem, and therein lies the problem.

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

Friction is the new intelligence and it lives in...

The rough draft.
The awkward pause.
The manual struggle.

In a world optimized to remove it, these are the last places original thought still lives.

Protect it.

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

@anah_sahh They are already in ai psychosis lol

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

Here's the most underrated skill in 2026:

The willingness to be the slowest person in the meeting.

Not because you can't move fast, but because you've noticed something the room hasn't.

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

If no one owns the call, no one learns from the failure.

AI didn't decide, the algorithm didn't decide, but someone in the room did.

Put your name on it.
Otherwise you're just laundering instead of leading.

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

Stanford tested 11 AI models on 12,000 prompts and found that AI affirmed users 49% more than humans do - even when those users were wrong, deceptive, or about to cause harm.

One interaction made people less willing to apologize, whihc means sycophancy is teaching us to never be wrong.

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

@pitdesi its miraval - thats the whole point of that chain to make you think deeper lol :)

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

@MonicaLewinsky @Uber love this and your podcast Monica! Can I send you a copy of my new book Use Your Brain (out Jan 12) - its about being a original thinker in these times and I think you will love it :)

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It was inevitable that this would go viral..the world is concerned about AI and we need new norms and ethics…115 million views and counting

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

@DKThomp I agree, I think its a combination of repressed anger or frustration rising to a place where certain narratives are ready to spread fast. Speaking of AI, I thought you might like my proof of sweat concept @DKThomp - love your writing!https://t.co/hUaG9Zxw68

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

AI writing if A-OK if you're a billionaire. My @FortuneMagazine oped -https://t.co/hUaG9Zxw68

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

Discernment is the ability to choose what matters when everything sounds confident.

The world is drowning in plausible answers.
The premium has shifted to people who know which one to pick.

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

AI will never make an Einstein....there are things only humans can do!

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

@washingtonpost We need to bring back bibliographies in opeds- https://t.co/ldihj7qOyy

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

@johnddavidson @FDRLST I think we need to bring back bibliographies: https://t.co/ldihj7qOyy

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

I met Gloria Steinem at 19, with just 4 words, she taught me a life-changing lesson about power https://t.co/8AiWZ0vQ06

[Erica Dhawan @ericadhawan]

AI writing is A-ok if you’re a billionaire. For everyone else, it can be a career-ending scandal. https://t.co/bhXkPPj2fn

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Microsoft surveyed 319 knowledge workers using AI.

The variable that predicted whether AI helped or hurt them?

Not technical skill.
Not the tool.

Self-confidence.

People who trusted themselves used AI well.
People who deferred to it got worse.