AI-assisted research

I use these tools every day and have presented on their place in academic writing, so I can speak from experience about where they genuinely help and where they quietly mislead. Used well, they compress the slow machinery of scholarship — surveying a literature, gathering and organizing sources, drafting an early synthesis to argue against — from weeks into days. Used carelessly, they invent citations and launder confident nonsense, which is why every claim that comes out of my process is traced to a real, checkable source before it reaches you. I treat the technology as an instrument in trained hands, the way a scholar treats a search index or a capable research assistant: it accelerates the work and leaves the judgment where it belongs. If you want the speed of current tools carried by the accountability of traditional scholarship, that balance is exactly what I hold.