Princeton professor says AI-generated cold emails are destroying outreach signals
Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan reports receiving about 75 PhD inquiry emails months before the Fall 2027 admission cycle, arguing that AI agents generating personalized cold emails at scale are destroying the signals that once made outreach effective.
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