## 4 Ways to Use AI on a PhD Thesis Finding citations, consolidating code, fact-checking and preparing for the defence Dozens of abandoned ideas, code spread across countless repos and hundreds of research papers you read over 4 years ago. The thesis write-up is an attempt at making sense of this mess — a daunting task if your PhD journey was anything like mine. Thankfully, we now have the greatest tool of information synthesis to help. I want to share the ways that I used AI tools. These include: a research assistant for finding citations, combining code from multiple experiments to improve…