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Steve McGarvey

AI-assisted desk research

Three articles on doing desk research with AI. The first makes the case: you can’t prove an AI-assisted review is accurate, but you can make it checkable. The second is a how-to for the workflow. The third is a kit of prompts for it.

  1. You can't prove an AI-assisted review is accurate. You can make it checkable.

    AI accuracy numbers don't transfer to your topic. What you can do is make every claim in a review trace to text you read.

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  2. How to do an AI-assisted literature review

    A ten-stage method for using AI on a literature review, with a person deciding at every step and every claim traced to text you read.

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