Navigating the World of AI: Tools, Safeguards, and Governance

AI language models such as ChatGPT can help democratize education and boost academic research if used thoughtfully, according to Mushtaq Bilal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark. Bilal recommends using incremental prompting to create a structure for research papers and suggests other AI-powered tools such as Consensus, Elicit.org, Scite.ai, Research Rabbit, and ChatPDF to aid academic efforts. While some experts have raised concerns about the accuracy and quality of output produced by language models, Bilal believes that understanding their limitations and using the right approach can make them do a lot of quality labor for researchers.