Among PhD graduates who completed their undergraduate degrees in the United States, those with AI-generated abstracts were 17% less likely to be employed in academia than were graduates who did not use AI. However, using AI made those graduates 16% more likely to be employed in industry than those who did not use it. The authors found that the link between AI use and landing a job in academia was less pronounced for graduates who did their undergraduate studies outside the US.

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