Credit: Getty Graduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to search the literature, design presentations, generate code and summarize papers. But many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build. A 60-minute webinar organized by Nature’s careers team will investigate how PhD programmes are adapting to accommodate future workplace needs. The
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