
Roughly 30% of PhD dissertations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the United States this year contained AI-generated text
Moreover, PhD graduates who use artificial intelligence to help write their dissertations are more likely to work in industry and less likely to enter academia. Those with AI-generated abstracts were 17% less likely to be employed in academia than were graduates who did not use AI.
This working paper analyzed dissertations from more than 226,000 STEM doctoral graduates