5 · Using AI in research

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Open the slides

On Zoom. This session is held on Zoom and will be recorded.

What you should be able to do after this meeting. Choose the right way to reach one of these tools for a given job, and say why. Write the outline of a section yourself and use a tool to audit it. Interrogate a file you did not create — through an assistant, without reading the code — and catch what is wrong with it before it reaches your proposal.

Where to read more

Adams ch. 7 on secondary data collection.

Korinek (2023) in the Journal of Economic Literature is the standard reference for economists. It rates six kinds of task, and it is honest about which ones do not work.

Session A · 2:00 to 3:15

The material for this session is in the slides.

Session B · 3:30 to 4:30

A live demo of how to use AI to get a research project started.