A PhD is an apprenticeship in research – we can’t let AI take that away
- Written by Toby Murray, Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
When OpenAI launched ChatGPT-5 in August of last year, many academicsscoffed at the tech company’s claims its new artificial intelligence (AI) model possessed “PhD-level” intelligence.
After all, how could systems so prone to hallucination, flawed reasoning, and sycophancy compete with the world’s brightest young minds?
Yet...





