Challenge your beliefs with the AI Sphinx by Dr. Helene Levoire for the Red Team Analysis Society. The art design for the featured image is by our art director, Jean Dominique Levoire-Cali. Let's introduce Sphinx, the devil's advocate role, and how AI can assist. We created Sphinx, an AI assistant that will be your own personal, devil's advocate. Sphinx will assist you in challenging your assumptions, seeing different perspectives, and thus in reinforcing your arguments, positions, and sets of scenarios. Being able to see different perspectives is key for strategic foresight and mourning, for example to develop scenarios. It is crucial for communication to allow for proper exchanges and constructive behavior. Being able to challenge one's hypotheses is indispensable in science. This is the only way to make sure our explanations, understanding, and theories are valid. We explained that aspect in our article reviewing Nicholas Talib's famous book, The Black Swan. In contemporary usage, the term, devil's advocate, refers to someone who plays role in debates or discussions. The devil's advocate takes a position that is contrary to the majority view in order to identify weaknesses or flaws in the argument. Eye assistants that are built out of large language models to hold conversations with human beings are very useful to play the role of the devil's advocate. Furthermore, because the AI assistant playing the role of the devil's advocate is not a real person, then the emotional difficulty that goes with seeing one's assumptions and beliefs challenged may be lessened. As issues of power and domination are removed when exchanging with an AI assistant, then we can more calmly ponder and reflect upon our ideas. Let us see a case study. Sphinx's AI devil's advocate perspective on climate change. Here is the assumption we asked Sphinx to challenge. Human beings have always overcome problems and our current civilization is very advanced and enlightened. Thus, we shall have no difficulties continuing as we do and overcoming climate change. Sphinx's first challenge was, what if climate change is different from previous challenges that we have faced, both in terms of scale and urgency? Climate change is a planetary condition that impacts the entire biosphere and all human societies. Its effects will last for centuries, if not millennia. What if we are facing a challenge that requires unprecedented levels of global cooperation and collective action to address? Sphinx brings to light three other key potential challenges surrounding the topic of climate change. These are issues that cannot be ignored and demand urgent attention. Take the risk to pay heed to Sphinx's answers, or rather questions, and uncover the harsh truths that we must confront. Read our article. Allow Sphinx to be your personal devil's advocate. Please go ahead and provide Sphinx with a hypothesis or topic you'd like to discuss. And it will do its best to provide alternative viewpoints or ask thought-provoking questions. Try, use Sphinx. You will be surprised.