When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
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BREAKING — MIT Technology Review is asking when we can properly credit artificial intelligence with a genuine scientific discovery, a question that sharpened last week when Anthropic revealed it had quietly opened a molecular biology lab where Claude agents propose hypotheses and human scientists test them. The piece, drawn from The Algorithm newsletter, does not resolve the puzzle so much as stage it: machines that read literature and generate conjectures are now embedded in the empirical loop, yet the moment of discovery remains stubbornly human in its attribution. The tension is between capability and credit, between what the system can surface and what the community will recognize as origination.
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