Capability guide · Plain language first
Research and understand
Find, compare and explain information while keeping sources, gaps and uncertainty visible.
The pattern
See what changes, and where you return.
A question leads to several sources, then a person checks the explanation.
Question→Multiple sources→Checked explanation
Recognisable examples
Begin with work you already understand.
A capability is a broad kind of help. The linked task guides explain how to complete a specific piece of work.
Understand an unfamiliar topic
Compare several sources
Ask questions about a document
Prepare a sourced briefing
AI can contribute
Repeatable effort and a first pass
- Finds and groups relevant material
- Compares claims across several sources
- Explains an unfamiliar topic in a chosen format
The person contributes
Meaning, checking and responsibility
- Defines the decision the research should support
- Opens and judges the important sources
- Notices missing perspectives and unsupported conclusions
Featured practical task
Research a topic with reliable sources
Turn a broad question into a bounded, source-linked briefing you can inspect and challenge.
- You provide
- The decision the research supports
- AI helps
- Plans research questions
- You check
- Whether sources are primary and current
- Finished result
- A focused briefing with links, disagreements, gaps and next questions kept visible.
- 01You provide
A decision, scope and source rules.
- 02AI helps
A cited first briefing across several sources.
- 03You check
The decisive links, gaps and conflicting claims.
- 04Finished result
A checked explanation that supports the next human question.
- Reviewed
- Review by
- Owner
- The Human Bit editorial
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