Who gets credit for AI-driven scientific discoveries? Not the chatbots
analisereal · x · 2026-08-13
The author argues that recent mathematical results produced by Anthropic and OpenAI models are scientific discoveries akin to penicillin, and the humans who prompted and directed the systems deserve the credit.
However, in a follow-up, the author emphasizes the danger of anthropomorphizing chatbots by granting authorship to models like Claude. If researchers take responsibility for the results, they should put their own names on the work and precisely describe the methods and instruments used, just as traditional scientists do.
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