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Reading Between the Algorithms: Understanding and Using Generative AI Online
This class invites learners across the medical and health‑sciences community to consider generative AI and develop a genuine and critical literacy for clinical practice and research. The course aims to confront two driving questions: How do the bold promises--that AI will revolutionize clinical practice and upend research methods--hold up when measured against what these applications can actually do? And what ethical concerns emerge from the way generative models are built, trained, and deployed—including the labor, data, and power structures behind them?
Led by one of Countway's Librarians, this class will explore the structure and science of generative AI tools, ethical issues in usage, highlight specific use-cases, and demonstrate workflows that increase veracity, reduce sycophancy and mitigate hallucinations from outputs.
Types of tools covered will include: basic Large Language Models, RAG Models, and Agentic Models used across a variety of applications in medicine, public health, and healthcare delivery practice and research.
- Date:
- Friday, March 13, 2026
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Categories:
- Research Skills
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