AI Instructor – AI for researchers

YPAI; United States; Remote; USD 36,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

YPAI Learn seeks educators to deliver live online classes for researchers on using AI in the research process, from screening literature searches to drafting methods and AI-use disclosures. Classes are taught in English from a ready class kit, remotely, with pay per class.

Classes cover screening search results, drafting methods with AI, and ethics/AI-use statements. Teaching is via invitation after profile review, with a flexible time commitment and biweekly payments.

Qualifications

• Must have experience teaching or supervising researchers.
• Experience presenting research methods to diverse audiences.
• Strong command of English and ability to teach remotely.

Responsibilities

• Teach live online classes (90 minutes) from the class kit.
• Demonstrate how to screen search results for literature reviews using AI and log decisions.
• Assist learners in drafting AI use statements for methods sections.
• Show how to set inclusion/exclusion criteria and how AI can suggest inclusions/exclusions for abstracts.
• Guide learners to verify references via DOI or title and prune non-findable sources.
• Help learners determine what their ethics approval allows for uploads and how to phrase AI-use statements.

Skills

Teaching experience

Research methods

Literature reviews

English fluency

Job description

Teach live online classes for researchers on using AI in the research process itself, from screening a literature search to drafting methods and disclosing AI use. You teach in English from a ready class kit, remotely, and you are paid for each class you teach.

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.

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.

Pay

$26-$99/hr. Rate shown is for the United States. This role is open in 4 countries, with local rates; pick your country on YPAI.

YPAI pays every two weeks for approved work via PayPal, Wise or bank transfer. Work is by invitation after your profile is reviewed.