AI to Make Good Writers Great Writers, w/ Mushtaq Bilal
Using AI as a tool to enhance writing across fiction, academia, and professional communication.
Guest
Mushtaq Bilal
Writer and academic-research educator
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD, is a writer and academic-research educator who teaches scholars how to use AI as a thinking, drafting, and critique partner. He has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Southern Denmark and co-founded Research Kick, an AI tool designed for academic researchers.
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Is AI going to replace writers? Or is AI just terrible at writing?
Maybe neither of these viewpoints is accurate. Instead, AI can be a tool to help people write -- whether that's fiction or academia or emails to your boss.
Today's guest, Mushtaq Bilal, PhD, is a master at using AI to assist with writing projects. He writes about this prolifically on Twitter/X and LinkedIn, and he's widely regarded as being at the forefront of writing and AI.
A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark, he's also the co-founder of Research Kick, an AI-powered tool designed specifically for academic researchers.
Mushtaq and I get deep into the nuance of using AI to assist with writing projects -- from helping with structure to identifying blind-spots to critiquing our own work. We also get into the merits of Custom GPTs, which can be sneakily leveraged to help with our writing.
If you do any writing of any kind, I suspect you'll get something out of this. Enjoy the show!
Mushtaq Bilal
https://x.com/MushtaqBilalPhD
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mushtaqbilalphd/
Research Kick
https://www.researchkick.com/