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Historian uses AI model to uncover new dodo eyewitness account

Original: Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

A researcher reports using the Claude Opus 5.5 AI model to help surface a previously unknown eyewitness record of the dodo, the extinct flightless bird of Mauritius. The finding is drawing attention among historians and technologists as an example of AI assisting archival discovery, with readers debating how much credit the model deserves versus traditional scholarship.

Why now: It combines a charismatic extinct animal with a striking claim that AI helped make a genuine historical discovery.

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• Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo · benbreen · 112

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