Generative AI 101

How to Make AI Actually Read Your Documents

October 21, 2026·12 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

A 130-page report lands in your inbox with a buried deadline, a half-million-dollar commitment, and one sentence that quietly rewrites policy, and your AI summary mentions none of it. In this episode, host Emily Laird explains why asking AI to make documents shorter is the wrong assignment, and how to interrogate them instead: commitment tables, version comparisons, skeptical-evaluator prompts, and the hunt for what isn’t there. She also breaks down evidence grounding and why no important claim should leave the chat without a page number attached. Confident, beautifully formatted, and occasionally wrong is not the standard you want to bring into a budget meeting.   🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup   📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/   💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird

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