When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
MIT Technology Review 2 weeks ago 18
Anthropic announced that its Claude agent molecular biology lab made its first discovery by flagging an unreported repeating genetic pattern around a known enzyme. The company said the 950-agent system found the pattern in 21 hours. Biologists pushed back that the result was not a true breakthrough and claimed the pattern may have been found already, raising scrutiny of AI-discovery claims and whether AI outputs count as scientific advances.