This is in line with how I've been using AI in my workflow recently. I give it a summary of my findings thus far and ask it to suggest explanations and recommend further tests I should conduct. About 70% of its ideas are dumb and sometimes I need to give it a little extra prompting, but it does spit out ideas that hadn't occurred to me which make sense. Obviously it's not going to replace a knowledgeable human, but as a tool to assist that human it has outperformed some very expensive PhD level consultants.