One of the most touted objections to AI in education is that using AI will subvert students’ development of critical thinking skills. What if we flip this script? How might we teach students to use AI in ways that boost critical thinking rather than hinder it? How can we prepare students—and ourselves—for a learning lifestyle that optimizes the potential of co-laboring with AI? In this session, we’ll reimagine an AI partnership that is not bound by plagiarism issues, cognitive bypassing, AI hallucinations, or shallow learning curves.