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AI-Assisted Research

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Beginner content levelBeginner

Using AI to find information you can trust

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Design a clear AI-assisted research strategy
  • Use prompting techniques to improve research quality
  • Evaluate and verify AI-generated information
  • Identify hallucinations, bias, and weak sourcing
  • Reconcile multiple perspectives into actionable insights
  • Communicate AI-assisted work transparently and responsibly

Course description

Whether you’re sizing a market, tracking a competitor, or building the case for a strategic decision, research is part of the job. AI can make that faster, but faster isn’t useful if you can’t trust what it gives you.

Join David Griffiths to get a structured workflow for AI-assisted research without sacrificing accuracy or credibility. In this concise one-hour course, you’ll learn how to plan a research strategy, prompt for better results, evaluate and verify AI output, spot hallucinations and weak sourcing, and communicate findings you can trust.

This live event is for you because...

  • You use AI to research competitors, markets, or industry trends, and you’re not always confident the output is accurate.
  • You’ve caught AI making things up but you don’t have a consistent process for verifying what it gives you.
  • You rely on research to make recommendations or decisions, and the stakes of getting it wrong are real.
  • You’re fast with AI tools but you know your fact-checking habits haven’t kept up.
  • You’re responsible for research quality across a team and want a repeatable framework you can teach to others.

Prerequisites

  • Access to a chatbot with a thinking or deep research mode, such as Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Mistral Vibe (to follow along with demonstrations)

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Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Planning (15 minutes)

  • Presentation: You—not the chatbot—are the researcher
  • Demonstration: Using the PICO technique for research queries; chain-of-thought reasoning
  • Q&A

Research (10 minutes)

  • Presentation: Use of redundancy in research
  • Demonstration: Tools for capturing results
  • Q&A

Investigate (10 minutes)

  • Presentation: Confidence is not the same as accuracy—the importance of skepticism
  • Demonstration: Using the CRAAP technique and red-teaming
  • Q&A

Synthesize (10 minutes)

  • Presentation: Bringing the results together
  • Demonstration: Using projects to combine results
  • Q&A

Write-up (5 minutes)

  • Demonstration: Writing up results
  • Q&A

AI content detection (10 minutes)

  • Demonstration: The hidden signatures of AI text; a simple perspective technique for AI image detection
  • Q&A

Your Instructor

  • David Griffiths

    David Griffiths founded HereScreen Ltd and is the author or coauthor of seven books, including Head First Android Development and The React Cookbook. David has also written for magazines about software development and created online training material.

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Skill covered

Artificial Intelligence (AI)