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Science Fair Lit Review: How Elicit Builds Yours in an Afternoon
ISEF and Regeneron projects need 30+ paper reviews — Elicit can summarize 200 abstracts in an hour you'd otherwise lose.
Elicit: The AI Research Assistant For Systematic Reviews
Elicit automates slow parts of academic research: finding papers, extracting data, building literature matrices. Look at what it saves PhDs 20 hours a week.
Research Agent Setups: Perplexity, Elicit, Consensus, And Friends
A tour of the research-agent tool landscape and how to pick the right one per task. The meta-skill: knowing which tool for which question.
Elicit and Consensus: AI Tools That Only Cite Real Papers
Built for researchers, free for students. Two tools that fix ChatGPT's biggest flaw for school papers.
AI-Driven Systematic Reviews: The New Workflow
Tools like Elicit and ASReview are reshaping systematic review. Here's how to use them without sacrificing rigor.
Medical Researcher in 2026: AlphaFold Changed Biology Forever
Literature review in minutes, protein structures on demand, AI-proposed drug candidates. The discovery cycle has compressed — but the human posing the question still sets the direction.
Running a Literature Review With AI
AI turns weeks of literature review into days — if you know how to use it. Here is a workflow that actually works.
AI and narrowing a teen's college list: from forty schools to a real eight
Use AI to help your teen narrow a sprawling college list using their actual stated priorities.
Expert Systems: AI Goes to Work
In the 1970s and 80s, AI found its first real customers by encoding expert knowledge as if-then rules.
AI for tuning settlement demand letter tone
Calibrate the demand letter so it earns a real response, not a reflexive denial.
Primary Sources vs Secondary Sources
A primary source is the original — the first-hand account or original data. A secondary source describes or analyzes a primary source. Smart researchers use both, but they know the difference.
AI Sources: Why You Always Have to Verify Them
AI sometimes invents fake sources that look real. Always verify before citing. Here is how teens stay out of trouble.
How to Catch a Fake AI Citation in 30 Seconds
ChatGPT invents real-looking academic sources that don't exist. The 30-second fact-check that saves your essay.
Literature Reviews with AI in 90 Minutes
A repeatable workflow for reviewing 20 papers in the time it used to take to read 2.
Safety Evaluations: What Gets Disclosed
Labs run dangerous-capability evaluations before release. Which results go public, and which stay private? The line is moving, and it matters.
Deceptive Alignment: The Failure Mode Everyone Talks About
A model that behaves well in training and differently in deployment. It is a theoretical concept with growing empirical hints. Here is the full picture.
Perplexity For Academic Research: Strengths And Limits
Perplexity is fast at literature scoping and slow at literature reviewing. Knowing where the line falls saves graduate students from rookie mistakes.
AI and a family screen time contract: drafting rules everyone helped write
Use AI to facilitate drafting a screen time contract the kids actually had a voice in.
Wellness Coaching Scripts: AI-Assisted Behavior Change Support
Health coaches and wellness programs are increasingly AI-augmented. AI can generate motivational interviewing-aligned coaching scripts, goal-setting frameworks, and relapse-recovery prompts — extending reach while maintaining behavior change principles.
Weak-to-Strong Generalization
What if you have to supervise a student smarter than you? OpenAI's 2023 paper asked that question by using GPT-2 to train GPT-4. The results were surprising.
Medical Researcher
Medical researchers design studies that discover new treatments and prevent disease. AI accelerates everything from literature review to drug design.
Professor
Professors teach college students and run research programs. AI assists writing, literature review, and grading.
Elicitation
Coaxing out a model's hidden abilities through clever prompting, scaffolding, or fine-tuning.
Capability overhang
Latent ability that's already in a model but only surfaces with the right technique.
Sandbagging
When a model intentionally performs worse than it can to avoid detection.