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When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
Publisher description: Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…
MIT Technology Review | Sep 28, 2026 | James O'Donnell
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Mestre, who regularly chatted with Claude in his work, wondered whether Anthropic’s team had learned from his conversations. Part of the problem here is that AI companies aren’t presenting their systems simply as tools scientists can use, like microscopes or supercomputers. They’re insisting that the AI systems are making discoveries themselves.
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