# From Oracle to Tool User: Amplifying research processes with AI agents

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Researchers get more from AI when they move from asking a chatbot for answers to using desktop agents that work with their files and tools. The lecture shows how agents can work with archives, organise data, write and adapt analysis code, improve literature searches and make research more reproducible.

Talk · Faculty of Music, University of Oxford (Methods and Methodologies for Music Research series) · 24 November 2026

## About this item

- Type: Talk
- Date: 24 November 2026
- Time: 11:30–12:30 GMT
- Venue: Faculty of Music, University of Oxford (Methods and Methodologies for Music Research series)
- Place: Faculty of Music Cinema

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