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We’re starting something new: the AVI AI Papers Club. It’s a casual, open discussion of one AI paper or topic that matters for veterinary medicine. Christopher Pinard, DVM DVSc DACVIM (Oncology), David Brundage, PhD, and our president Brian Hur, DVM, PhD will kick things off. Then we open it up, and anyone is welcome to jump in.
Session 1: Why the Harness Matters
When people compare AI tools, they usually compare the models. But the code around a model (what it sees, what tools it can use, how its work gets checked) can matter just as much. We’ll talk about what that means for AI tools in the clinic, plus new decision models like TypeSafe’s Jev. No technical background needed. If you’d like a head start, here are a few things to look at. Reading is optional, and coming with questions is just as welcome.
When people compare AI tools, they usually compare the models. But the code around a model (what it sees, what tools it can use, how its work gets checked) can matter just as much. We’ll talk about what that means for AI tools in the clinic, plus new decision models like TypeSafe’s Jev.
No technical background needed. If you’d like a head start, here are a few things to look at. Reading is optional, and coming with questions is just as welcome.
Optional Reading:
YC Paper Club: Harness Night (video), the session that sparked this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xKblqyQ28 CliniCARE-Bench (Scale AI). Clinical agents tested on 750 real patient cases. Whether their answers could be traced to evidence depended mostly on the harness: https://labs.scale.com/blog/clinicare-bench Introducing System One Models & Jev (TypeSafe): https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev
Additional Optional Reading:
Meta-Harness: End-to-End Optimization of Model Harnesses (Stanford, MIT, KRAFTON, 2026): https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28052 Harness Engineering paper collection, all 21 papers from the YC session (DAIR.AI): https://academy.dair.ai/papers/collections/harness-engineering A counterpoint on Jev: HiddenLayer’s security report, via InfoWorld: https://www.infoworld.com/article/4236103/typesafes-jev-even-more-susceptible-to-attack-than-llms-says-security-vendor.html
Contact Dr. Sara Forsythe, AVI Education Chair with any questions at education@avinformatics.org
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