Active, recurring shipped deliverable
GenServe.AI: The Shortlist
A weekly healthcare AI newsletter curated from 100+ articles down to a human-reviewed top 10.
Organization
GenServe.AI / Future & Health Institute
Role
AI Scholar Intern, Summer AI Scholars Program, 2026 Cohort
Period
June 2026 – Present
Status
Active, recurring shipped deliverable
The Shortlist is a real, dated, weekly newsletter (for example, Issue 06, published July 2026), not a concept or a prototype. David works on the newsletter automation project as a member of the 2026 Scholars Cohort, alongside fellow scholars and mentors, not as its sole builder.
The problem
Finding good healthcare AI articles for a weekly newsletter used to mean manually checking news sites, journals, and social media, then judging each one by hand: slow, inconsistent, and easy to let weak stories through or miss strong ones.
The goal
Build and operate a system that collects healthcare AI news and research automatically, scores it consistently against an agreed quality rubric, and hands a human editor a short, high-quality list to make the final call from.
My role
As a Scholar in the 2026 cohort, I work on GenServe.AI's Top 10 newsletter automation project, the pipeline that collects, scores, and shortlists healthcare AI articles each week, alongside fellow scholars and mentors, and I contribute to the research, curation, and healthcare-audience framing behind each issue. It's a team-built system I work on and operate within, not one I built alone.
Process
- 1The system automatically pulls new articles weekly from about 10 trusted healthcare IT, AI-industry, and academic sources, including PubMed and arXiv.
- 2Each article is scored against an agreed quality rubric (relevance, credibility, impact, newsletter fit), applied consistently, based on the actual full article rather than just a headline.
- 3Anything low-quality, paywalled, or without full readable content is automatically filtered out.
- 4The system ranks what's left into a shortlist of roughly the top 20 candidates.
- 5A human editor reviews the shortlist and makes the final call on the 10 stories that go into that week's issue. The system never picks the final list itself.
- 6The finished issue is assembled into a branded document with themed sections, sourced articles, and credibility notes for each pick.
Deliverables
- Weekly published issues of The Shortlist (e.g. Issue 06, July 2026)
- Article scoring and curation within GenServe.AI's rubric
- Healthcare-audience framing for each featured story
Outcome
The Shortlist is a real, shipping publication, not a pitch. Each issue includes dated, sourced healthcare AI stories, framed for healthcare executives and researchers, with credibility notes that distinguish preprints from peer-reviewed research and clearly flag anything that couldn't be verified rather than guessing.
What I learned
- Good AI-assisted curation still needs a clear, explicit rubric: consistency comes from the criteria, not from the AI alone.
- A human editorial decision matters even when the filtering upstream is strong; the system's job is to narrow the field, not make the call.
- Framing the same research differently for different audiences (researchers vs. healthcare executives vs. entrepreneurs) is its own skill.
Skills demonstrated
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