Critical Ignoring: the missing skill for working with AI outputs

Modern digital life is not short of information. It’s short of attention. Online environments are engineered to seize your attention with novelty, emotion, outrage, and urgency. Large Language Models (LLMs) intensify this problem: they generate highly readable, plausible text at speed, which can lure you into investing attention in content that is wrong, ungrounded, biased, or simply irrelevant. This educational paper is about developing the mindset and habits to use AI productively without being hijacked by it.