I originally started publishing my work to use the power of the crowd to check for errors. Before that I was doing it in persons so to speak via debates on irc.
My first topic was religion. It was easy, I learned a lot about being right and being wrong and rhetoric.
Now however no one reads my work as far as I can tell and I have no staff or funding to even access to research materials to test my data thanks to a global problem of information management issues coupled with greed.
Something that AI could help with is logical assessments of bodies of text.
Maybe some time in the future along with spell check and grammar check the computer will be able to logic check. To cross reference definitions and illuminate unfalsifiability and logical fallacies.
Not determine whether or not a piece is factually correct, but at least that is it logically consistent and makes a statement that could conceivably be tested at least in theory.
I personally would find such a tool of immense value.