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Evidence-led essays on AI, academic discovery, mentorship and the systems shaping who gets to participate in research.
Published in Towards AI
AI is already inside every layer of the university. The important question is which parts of academic life it makes obsolete, and which it makes more valuable.
Prestige is real, but the cleanest causal evidence in the literature points to one person—and it is not your dean.
A decades-old ritual of searching directories and cold-emailing professors is being rebuilt by AI—and that changes who gets into research.
While universities debate AI-written essays, a larger shift is changing who gets found, read, and admitted into research.
A chatbot can produce ten convincing professors in seconds. Some may not exist, while the rest may have moved or stopped accepting students.
