What is Critical Thinking to Spot AI Lies? GTF to Host 'Tokyo Early Bird' Morning Session on June 26

Can you spot the moment when ChatGPT tells a barefaced lie?

Generative AI calmly fabricates facts with plausible sentences. However, distinguishing whether the answers provided by AI are 'correct' or 'incorrect' ultimately relies on human thinking skills. As analyzed in the release dated May 18, did you know that the top 3 skills identified by the WEF (World Economic Forum) as the most important by 2027—Analytical, Creative, and Critical Thinking—are all components of 'Critical Thinking'?

In this session, we will extract 4 skills directly related to hallucination verification from the 16 sub-skills of critical thinking and share a '4-Step TODO for AI Output.'

*Early Bird is an early morning study and exchange meeting supported by GTF since 2001.

Date & Time: Friday, June 26, 2026, 7:30 - 9:00 (Registration opens at 7:15, seminar ends at 8:30)
Format: Hybrid (Venue & Online) *Subject to change due to circumstances.
Venue Participation: Free. Selected attendees will be messaged (around Tokyo Station).
Online Participation: Zoom Webinar, Free.
Capacity: 30 people at the venue.
Language: Japanese.
Organizer: Tokyo Early Bird by GTF (Global Taskforce).
Application: GTF webpage and Peatix page.

■ Recommended for:
- Those who use generative AI for work but lack the confidence to consistently identify the accuracy of its output.
- Managers and executives who want to instill 'rules for using AI correctly' in their subordinates and teams.
- Those who feel that 'logical thinking is acquired, but it feels insufficient for decision-making in the AI era.'
- HR / L&D / HRBP professionals planning corporate training and human resource development.
- Those who want to confirm the gap between the WEF 2027 top skills and their own company's training portfolio.
- Regular and new participants of Tokyo Early Bird who want to open their mornings with cross-industry knowledge.

■ What you can take away in 60 minutes (Learning Objectives):
- Be able to verbalize the 4 structural causes of hallucinations from both a probability model perspective and a cognitive science perspective.
- Be able to directly apply the '4-Step Verification TODO' for AI output to your work today.
- Understand how to properly use the 4 skills (Interpretation, Analysis, Evaluation, Self-Regulation) directly related to hallucination verification out of Facione's (1990) 6 core / 16 sub-skills of Critical Thinking.
- Understand why Logical Thinking (LT) training alone is fatally insufficient in the AI era—comprehensible from the consistency of the WEF report and the APA Delphi Report.
- Formulate a hypothesis for the next move (what to reinforce) in light of your company's training and human resource development programs.

■ Schedule:
Reception (Venue) / Zoom entry start: 07:15 - 07:30
Content: 07:30 - 08:30 Opening and sharing today's goals

[Session 1] Why does AI tell barefaced lies?
- The 4 types of hallucinations and the probabilistic nature of LLMs

[Session 2] WEF 2027 x Critical Thinking: What is missing in training environments?
- Explanation of the May 18 release and the meaning of the LT vs CT coverage rate (13-31%)

[Session 3 / Today's Core] 4-Step TODO to doubt AI output
1. Interpretation: Reformulating the question
2. Analysis: Deconstructing claims and evidence
3. Evaluation: Verifying evidence and sources
4. Self-Regulation: Self-checking your own confirmation bias
* Q&A / Cross-discussion between venue and online participants

Closing / Networking (Venue participants)

■ Speaker:
Founder and Owner (Representative Partner) of GTF Co., Ltd. (Global Taskforce)
Principal of GTF Thinking Academy
Hidetsugu Yamanaka

After graduating from university, interned at Bain & Company (UK) while attending business school. Transferred from the MBA program to the Research Master's program and worked at the same base for nearly 2 years. After graduation, joined KDDI, and in 1999, participated in the launch of 'Global Workplace,' an online recruitment platform for MBA alumni from major business schools in 18 countries around the world, commercialized mainly by the London Business School fund, serving as an advisor to the London Business School.