AI Clinic

Artificial Intelligence Research and Creative Activities Clinic (AIRCAC)

Overview

CINSER is proud to offer an AI Research and Creative Activities Clinic (AIRCAC). AIRCAC is a campus-wide AI consultation program designed to support faculty and students from a broad range of academic disciplines in the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their research and creative activities, with an emphasis on responsible, controlled, transparent, and reliable use of AI-assisted tools. The clinic is not intended to replace disciplinary expertise. Rather, it is designed to help faculty and students use AI as a supervised and verifiable support tool within their existing scholarly, technical, clinical, educational, and creative practices.

AI is already being integrated across research and creative activities. In many cases, this usage is informal, unverified, and lacks structure. Without structured guidance, AI-assisted outputs may introduce factual errors, unsupported claims, flawed code, biased interpretations, reproducibility concerns, or inappropriate use of copyrighted, proprietary, or sensitive material. AIRCAC addresses this gap by supporting researchers, creators, and practitioners in:

Maintaining Scientific Accuracy and Artistic Rigor
Ensuring Reproducibility and Technical Integrity
Aligning with Institutional, Journal, and Grant Funding Requirements
Reducing Risks Associated with Unverified AI Outputs

What does the AI Clinic Provide?

AIRCAC offers a structured program where researchers, clinical scholars, educators, and creative practitioners are supported in:

Generating computational code, clinical pipelines, educational materials, and creative frameworks.
Executing and interpreting outputs within domain contexts.
Evaluating AI-generated outputs through systematic, domain-specific verification to support accuracy, clinical safety, evidence-based integrity, or aesthetic quality.
Standardizing workflows for institutional auditability, clinical safety, and creative provenance.

The clinic may also support prompt development, code review, workflow design, documentation practices, literature organization, data-analysis planning, visualization support, and responsible use of AI in manuscript, grant, and creative project development.

What are the Key Outcomes of AIRCAC?

Researchers supported by AIRCAC will be able to:

Confidently oversee AI-assisted workflows.
Identify and correct issues in AI-generated outputs.
Maintain reproducible and auditable research processes.
Apply AI in a way that aligns with scientific and institutional expectations.

Researchers may also develop practical skills in prompt design, output verification, responsible code generation, documentation, workflow organization, and critical evaluation of AI-assisted results. These outcomes are intended to strengthen research and creative practice, not to guarantee correctness without disciplinary review.

Program Structure and Weekly Schedule

AIRCAC offers two weekly office hours for individual consultation and one hour of live AI demonstration each week starting in the summer 2026.

Virtual Consultation Office Hours - Mondays and Wednesdays

Duration: 11:00 AM to 12:00 NOON Central Time every Monday and Wednesday

Format: Drop-in Virtual Session

Core Content: Direct, one-on-one consultation. These sessions are intended to provide practical guidance and support rather than to complete participants’ projects on their behalf. Faculty and students remain responsible for reviewing, approving, and validating the final outputs used in their work.

Virtual Educational Lecture and Demonstration Series - Fridays

Duration: One hour, 11:00 AM to 12:00 NOON Central Time
Format: Live Virtual Webinar. Sessions may be recorded and archived when appropriate.

Sessions focus on:

Guided demonstrations.
AI-assisted workflow support.
Practical validation strategies.
Real research and creative use cases.
Responsible AI practices, including documentation, reproducibility, privacy, bias awareness, and appropriate disclosure of AI use.

Get Involved

Faculty and students interested in learning more or accessing AI Clinic support are encouraged to contact the program team via email at cinser@csu.edu.

Participation requires no formal registration or pre-enrollment. Faculty may engage with the programming on a flexible, drop-in basis as project needs dictate.

Synchronous Access Link: TBA

Central Resource Repository:

CINSER YouTube Channel

Disclaimer

AIRCAC provides consultation, educational support, and practical guidance for the responsible use of AI-assisted tools in research and creative activities. The clinic does not replace the professional judgment, disciplinary expertise, or final responsibility of faculty, students, researchers, clinicians, artists, or project leads. All AI-generated outputs, including code, analyses, text, images, references, clinical materials, creative content, and project recommendations, must be independently reviewed, verified, and approved by the user before use.

AIRCAC support does not constitute legal, medical, clinical, compliance, publication, funding, or intellectual property advice. Participation in the clinic does not guarantee research accuracy, journal acceptance, grant approval, regulatory compliance, clinical suitability, or creative originality. Users are responsible for ensuring that their work complies with applicable institutional policies, IRB requirements, funding agency expectations, journal or conference guidelines, copyright rules, data privacy requirements, and professional standards.

AI tools may produce outputs that are incomplete, inaccurate, biased, fabricated, or contextually inappropriate. Therefore, all AI-assisted work should be treated as preliminary until validated through appropriate disciplinary, technical, ethical, and institutional review. AIRCAC is intended to support responsible AI literacy, structured verification, and informed human oversight, not to certify or endorse final project outcomes.

Direct Inquiries: For questions regarding custom scheduling or to submit project frameworks before office hours, contact the AI Consultation Office via email at cinser@csu.edu or by calling (773) 995-2598.