Ai is avoidable today . But Ai is a dual edged sword.
Ai has introduced personalized learning experiences. It might replace universities and even challenge academic integrity.

Students are familiar with Ai . It is claimed learning has been made easy . Some say Ai retards critical thinking. Hence , we may need controlled adoption in our academic circle .

Ai tools for research
Ai powered research from search to draft
Ai starts with prompt
Promt craft can be good or better.

Some Ai tools: ChatGPT 5 , Perplexity , Undermind ( this tool appears to be good today . It asks questions and also indicate research gap) , Litmaps ( this tool helps us to search for similar articles)
We have to give a role to Ai to the LLM model say : you are a senior research advisor and then( give a task ).

We have to use search engines to bridge the gaps in our knowledge of the topic of our research.

After the search . We can you NotebookLM
were we can export all that we searched. Then we can use configure chats where we can instruct the Ai what we need it to do (for instance , whether we need long or short output )
We can ask the NotebookLLM to produce a podcast
We can ask the NotebookLLM to generate mind maps which are like the summaries of the books or article

Drafting
IMRA Ai is said to be excellent . For Optimum result one has to pay the platform.

Ethical considerations of the use of AI for research:
This raises the question:
who is the author
Academic integrity
Transperancy ( are we ready to say whether we have used Ai)
Data privacy ( copy right) , plagiarism
Critical thinking suffers

Way out : we in academic world and teachers have to familarize with AI
Universities recomend disclosure of the use of the Ai
Ai has to be used under human supervision.
We human research in inevitable Ai
Famous academic journal do not allow Ai content generation
They allow language policy ( grammerly)
Critical evaluation of what one writes can be done using Ai tools .
Ai is incorporated in the curriculum that also mentions which Ai tools can be used.
Ai tools do not come free . Its use can great increase a gap between rich and the poor .

Universities use Ai to check or detect the use of Ai like Originality Ai. Some Universities allow ,40 percent use of Ai content