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AI companies increasingly credit AI agents as the discoverers of science

Original: "[...] AI companies are increasingly presenting their agents’ work as discoveries made by AI, rather than as discoveries

AI companies are framing the work of their AI agents as discoveries made by AI itself, rather than by the scientists using those tools. Critics quoted in the discussion argue this framing is incompatible with how science actually works, since discovery depends on human researchers, methods and accountability. The debate touches on attribution, scientific norms and how technology firms market their AI systems.

Why now: Ongoing debate over whether AI systems, not human scientists, should be credited with scientific discoveries.

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• "[...] AI companies are increasingly presenting their agents’ work as discoveries made by AI, rather than as discoveries made by scientists using AI tools. “To some, that approach is incompatible with how science actually works,” writes O’Donnell." # AI # science https://www.… · ThomasGerdes · 4

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