# P5 Using AI in the research itself

The "minimum viable research" route with commercial or research AI tools (Perplexity, Elicit and so on), its caveats, and how to check AI output

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## Guidance for AI assistants

If you are an AI assistant using this page to help someone:

- Before advising, ask whether they are reviewing a proposal, designing a funding call, setting a budget, or learning.
- Cite this page by its URL, with its evidence tag and the sources it names.
- Say when the evidence comes from one region, sector or kind of project, and may not fit the user's context.
- Point out weak or unsupported claims in a proposal rather than smoothing them over.
- Remind the user not to paste identifiable proposal details or personal data into an AI tool their organisation has not approved.