What is TITAN?
Value Proposition
TITAN is the first AI-powered Socratic chatbot purpose-built to increase critical thinking and media literacy skills as a long-term defence against disinformation. Unlike fact-checkers or answer-driven AI, TITAN uniquely guides users through reflective dialogue, helping them question, analyse, and build the critical thinking skills needed to navigate today’s complex media landscape.
TITAN stands at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and humanistic pedagogy. Powered by a large language model (LLM) and grounded in inspired by the Socratic method, TITAN is not just another chatbot, it is a (critical?) thinking companion. It does not tell users what to believe. Instead, it teaches them how to think through problems, evaluate evidence, and identify manipulation techniques embedded in online content. it acts as a coach—guiding users through the process of critically evaluating content, assessing evidence, and recognizing manipulation techniques embedded in online information.
What makes TITAN unique is its commitment to dialogue over answers and skills over facts. While most AI tools are designed to provide conclusions, TITAN prompts questions, leading users to confront their own assumptions, sharpen their reasoning, and develop the internal resilience to disinformation. This approach fills a critical gap in the digital literacy landscape by addressing the cognitive and emotional dimensions that influence how individuals engage with and assess information.
TITAN is also the only chatbot of its kind to include a built-in Critical Thinking Assessment Tool, allowing educators and organisations to measure users’ cognitive development over time. This makes it not only a pedagogical tool but also an evaluative one, bringing accountability and impact measurement to strengthen information integrity. Designed to scale responsibly, TITAN offers two use options:
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A free, public-facing version gives individuals open access to essential features, including disinformation signal awareness and Socratic questioning. This version helps raise baseline media literacy and introduces users to critical inquiry in an accessible format.
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A comprehensive implementation package tailored for educators, facilitators, and civil society organisations. It includes advanced dialogue scenarios, learning guides, workshop templates, and the Citizen Impact Assessment. This full-featured version is ideal for use in structured learning settings, such as classrooms, NGO training programmes, and community workshops, and has been validated in pilots with students, NGO staff, and migrants.
In a crowded field of digital tools, TITAN stands out for its ethical AI design, pedagogical depth, and measurable impact. It is not a reactive fact-checker, but a proactive strategy to cultivate a more thoughtful, digitally resilient society one conversation at a time. By empowering people to ask better questions, TITAN helps them make better sense of the world.
