Co-thinking with AI: a mini-series to guide SMEs in French-speaking Switzerland in the practical use of artificial intelligence
What if artificial intelligence (AI) wasn't there to replace you, but to enrich your thinking? That's the challenge of the mini-series "Co-thinking with AI", produced by Alp ICT in partnership with AI Swiss. In 5 episodes, this series offers SMEs in French-speaking Switzerland practical keys to integrating generative AI into their daily activities, based on the innovative concept of human-IA co-thinking, developed and promoted by Charles-Edouard Bardyn (Scientific Director & Vice-President of AI Swiss), with the support of Stéphane Fallet (President).
Rethinking your relationship with AI: from fear of AI to assumed co-thinking
For small and medium-sized businesses, AI represents an unprecedented performance lever. Used properly, it can:
- Solve your business challenges more effectively by talking to AI about your real-life issues (sales strategy, organization, recruitment...).
- Stimulate innovation by exploring new ideas for products or services with a thinking partner who is always available.
- Confront unknown challenges (new regulations, emerging markets) with confidence, using AI to structure your approach.
- Accelerate the training of your teams: each employee can learn and progress at his or her own pace, with AI as personal tutor.
- Decompartmentalize the company: AI becomes the access point to all procedures and best practices, accessible to all.
- Free up time for the essentials: concentrate on strategy and relationships, while AI helps you with the rest (writing, research, structuring...).
Co-thinking thus puts AI back in its essential role: augmenting rather than replacing humans, by making every employee a more creative, productive and autonomous player. Alp ICT & AI Swiss now invite you to take action with this 5-part mini-series.
AI, your new thinking partner
This episode debunks preconceived ideas. AI isn't just a "super-Google" or a threat to jobs: it's also a formidable thinking partner. We learn how to master this new form of literacy: communicating effectively with AI like learning a new language, to access augmented intelligence.
Co-thinking for everyday life, the augmented individual
How do you turn AI into a super-powered personal assistant? The episode shows, through practical examples (such as the automatic drafting of meeting minutes), that the secret lies in managing the AI's context and memory. The result: increased productivity and collaboration where the human element remains in the driver's seat.
Collective intelligence in action
Here, AI becomes a shared corporate brain. By centralizing procedures, history and knowledge in a "Knowledge Hub", every employee can co-think with AI and easily access best practices. The episode illustrates how this device transforms knowledge transmission and fosters collective innovation.
From idea to innovation
From creative spark to detailed action plan, AI plays the role of strategic co-thinker. The episode explores how to break down a complex project into clear steps, speed up implementation and guarantee quality through continuous interaction with AI, while retaining a critical, human approach.
The future of work and education
The final episode takes a step up. After writing, printing and the Internet, human-IA co-thinking is presented as a new cognitive revolution. It is redefining the future of work, business and education. Swiss SMEs are invited to anticipate this transformation in order to remain competitive and innovative in a changing world.
With the "Co-thinking with AI" series, Alp ICT and AI Swiss aim to provide a practical toolbox for all SMEs in French-speaking Switzerland wishing to take advantage of AI in a concrete and responsible way. Far from abstract speeches, this approach provides clear reference points: AI doesn't think in our place, but composes with our intelligence to enrich it, increasing our creativity and efficiency.
Further information
Strengthening education with this new form of AI literacy
In its white paper for education, AI Swiss describes co-thinking as "a true cognitive synergy where human and AI build thought together, each actively enriching the other's thinking". Far from an autonomous tool or passive assistant, AI becomes an intellectual sparring partner, supporting human expertise and experience without replacing them.
In practical terms, this changes everything in the day-to-day life of an SME. Instead of getting stuck on a complex problem, you dialogue with the AI to break it down. Instead of wasting hours structuring a sales proposal, you co-construct the document in real time. Instead of training your employees only through expensive courses, everyone can learn at their own pace by co-thinking with AI.
The good news?
Human-IA co-thinking is accessible to everyone, not just technical experts. As AI Swiss points out, it's the first real digital divide reducer: everyone can learn to master this cross-disciplinary skill to learn, think and create on new levels. This mini-series shows you exactly how.
Through our #TechTalk episodes and Alp ICT's Digital Observatory platform, you'll also find shared experiences, visions and deconstructed trends to help you understand the challenges and practical integration of artificial intelligence technologies.
