Your Name and Title: Allison Faix, Instruction Coordinator
Library, School, or Organization Name: University Libraries, Coastal Carolina University
Co-Presenter Name(s): Samantha Duncan
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: South Carolina
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): Librarians
Short Session Description (one line):
If your students are using generative AI chatbots and finding fake articles, why not show them how to research assistant AIs to find real articles instead?
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
Artificial intelligence has great potential to help researchers. Librarians can start introducing faculty and students to AI based tools which support their research and can also help them to become more AI literate. This session will discuss ways that librarians at Coastal Carolina University have started to integrate research assistant AI applications into their professional development sessions for faculty and their information literacy sessions for students. Tools introduced included Scite.ai, Research Rabbit, and JSTOR’s beta AI. We’ll look at the artificial intelligence-driven features that make these tools so different from library databases or Google Scholar. We’ll also consider the pros and cons of using them and will discuss how these tools might be integrated into library databases in the future.
Replies
This sounds like an excellent presentation! The one tool that you mention that I have some potential issues with is Research Rabbit. I have to say that I have not seen any issues with it myself, but I do see that there could be potential issues related to bias due to metadata tags. Essentially, it could run into the same echo chamber-like problems of generative AI tools. Have you found a way to remedy that potential issue?
We haven't experienced any issues, but we are also always concerned about potential bias in AI. We'd love to hear more about your concerns or if you have more information about this. There's always more to learn!