Computer science research papers show fastest uptake of AI use in writing, analysis finds

Researchers analysed the use of large language models in over a million pre-print and published scientific papers between 2020 and 2024, and found the largest, fastest growth in use of the AI systems in computer science papers — of up to 22 %.

Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), large language models are trained on vast amounts of text and can therefore respond to human requests in the natural language.

Researchers from Stanford University and other institutes in the US looked at 1,121,912 pre-print papers in the archives ‘arXiv’ and ‘bioRxiv’,…