News Summary

• Around 30% of PhD dissertations in the United States this year contained AI-generated text.
• PhD graduates who use artificial intelligence are more likely to work in industry and less likely to enter academia.
• The link between AI use and landing a job in academia was less pronounced for graduates who did their undergraduate studies outside the US.
• AI can be extremely helpful when students are working in areas in which there is already a substantial body of knowledge, says Ang Liu, an engineer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.