Always check and follow your local guidelines about whether this use of generative AI is permitted. If it is permitted, you may need to acknowledge the use of AI.
Due to changes in referencing standards, some generative AI tools may not be able to render particular formats. Always ensure if the format generated is aligned with expected standards.
Remember that your own critical evaluation is crucial and cannot be replaced by AI.
Different generative AI tools are unlikely to have access to a wide variety of scholarly databases and sources, so it's important that you conduct your own literature and database searches.
For annotated bibliographies, you might use generative AI tools to help find literature, summarise sources, provide suggested structure, critique your writing, and more.
Write some of the annotations as an example to the AI tool to emulate. AI is not a source of truth but rather a tool to makes you more effective.
Verify the accuracy and relevance of the information and make necessary adjustments to ensure it aligns with your understanding of sources.
Use AI-generated content mainly as a starting point to enhance your summarisation and analytical skills. Compare AI output with your own work to identify areas for improvement.
Ensure you closely read any papers that you use, comparing your understanding with any summaries that AI might have generated. It's likely that you will pick up on areas that the AI has missed, and vice versa. Use the AI to support your reading of papers, not doing the reading for you.
Generative AI might help by helping you to find sources and then by summarising sources.
helps to ensure the referencing format is correct.
Tools like Elicit (https://elicit.com/
) and Scite (https://scite.ai/
) are connected to real research article databases and can quickly search and provide summaries of research papers.
Whilst not 'generative' AI, tools like ResearchRabbit (https://www.researchrabbit.ai/
) and Connected Papers (https://www.connectedpapers.com/
) can help you visualise how papers are connected through citations and similarities, and help you discover prior and subsequent work.
You could prompt generative AI to help you analyse sources (using a browser sidebar), for example:
"Can you suggest some critical questions to consider when evaluating this source?"
"What are some potential limitations of the study?"