AI Instructor – AI for researchers (Remote, Sub-Saharan Africa)

What the work is for

YPAI Learn holds live classes where people learn to use AI in their own work. Your classes take researchers from a few thousand search results to a screened, logged set of studies, and from analysis notes to a methods section with an honest statement of AI use, and teach them to look up every reference and follow their journal's and funder's rules.

The work

• Teach the live class “Screen search results for a literature review with AI and log every decision”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Teach the live class “Draft a methods section with AI and write the AI use statement”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Show live how to set inclusion and exclusion criteria, have AI suggest include or exclude for each abstract, and keep a human decision and reason for every record.
• Walk learners through checking references AI suggests: find each one in a database by DOI or title, and drop any that cannot be found or say something else.
• Help learners work out what their ethics approval lets them upload, and how to word the statement on AI use that their journal or funder asks for.

What to expect

• You teach researchers from universities, institutes and companies worldwide, live and online in English; the application also asks which other languages you could teach in.
• The kit for each class contains a minute-by-minute plan, slides, speaker notes, a demo on a sample review question and a backup recording of the demo.
• You teach from your own computer, remotely, with a stable connection, a camera and a microphone.
• You take and pass the instructor test for each class before you teach it.
• Before a teaching assignment starts, you sign an instructor agreement. It covers pay, confidentiality and how class material may be used.
• Each invitation states the class times and the price learners pay, and you see both before you accept.
• Already have a course on AI for researchers, or want to make one? You can sell your own recorded course on YPAI Learn too. Bring a course you've built, or build one with our kit. It's the same application.

What you bring

• A review, paper, grant or analysis where you used AI and recorded how, that you can explain.
• Experience supervising students, teaching research methods or running workshops for research staff.
• Patience with researchers who are curious about AI but worried about what their journal or ethics board will say.

You need

• You work or have worked as a researcher, in academia, a research institute or industry R&D, and use AI in that work.
• A record of research output, such as papers, reports or a thesis, and experience with literature reviews.
• Fluent spoken English, the language the classes are taught in.
• 18 years or older.

Good to know

• If your university or employer requires approval for outside teaching, get it before you accept an assignment.
• How much you teach follows class demand, and each invitation sets out the expected time commitment.
• There is no cost to apply, and you need not buy or take any YPAI Learn course.