How has AI actually changed your PhD research workflow?

[d1imsim]

Hi all, I’m a computational social science PhD student interested in how AI tools are reshaping research culture.

Over the past year, I’ve noticed something interesting: in my lab/field, we’re being actively pushed toward “agentic” workflows (coding agents, automated literature pipelines, AI-assisted drafting, etc.). But I also have close friends in other disciplines who barely use ChatGPT at all for research.

It feels like there’s huge variation across fields in how much AI is used, what it's used for, and norms and feelings towards it.

I’m running a short anonymous survey (5–8 minutes) to understand how graduate students are using AI in research and daily life, how that’s changed recently, and what benefits, risks, and fears people see.

I’ll write up a public summary/blog post of the findings and share results with anyone interested.

https://forms.gle/HAdHzghDSFAS2gdh7

Participation is voluntary and anonymous.

[d1imsim]

link to survey as url: https://forms.gle/HAdHzghDSFAS2gdh7

Edited February 18 by d1imsim