Episode 24: AI & GLaD in Practice: a field report

2025-08-13

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AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives. Join Rachel, Dani, and Levi for a chat about how Artificial Intelligence is emerging in our GLAD lives. How is it being used "in the wilds" of teaching, research, coding, publishing, and beyond. Should you be farming out your peer reviews to a computer? Vibe coding with your friend Claude? Setting out on AI-generated running routes? And, as always, do we really need more papers faster than ever before? We chat through this, with some advice and reflections on where...

AI is now definitely changing how we live our (geography) lives. Join Rachel, Dani, and Levi for a chat about how Artificial Intelligence is emerging in our GLAD lives. How is it being used "in the wilds" of teaching, research, coding, publishing, and beyond. Should you be farming out your peer reviews to a computer? Vibe coding with your friend Claude? Setting out on AI-generated running routes? And, as always, do we really need more papers faster than ever before? We chat through this, with some advice and reflections on where AI might change our own practice and how it's certainly changing the way academia (writ large) works.

Let us know what you think at thegladpodcast@gmail.com. Did we miss something about AI that you now can't live without? Have we missed your favorite anecdote about a deluge of digital dreck? Send us an email!

Resources we discussed:

Nature's recent editorial on peer review and AI
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7

Harper Reed's post on how to code well with LLMs
https://harper.blog/2025/04/17/an-llm-codegen-heros-journey/

Ethan Mollick's "reasoned optimism" about thinking with AI
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/

Simon Willison's blog tracking the frontier of LLMs
https://simonwillison.org

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