MIT team builds 'recursive meta-intelligence': AI creates its own instruments to crack complex materials
ProfBuehlerMIT · x · 2026-09-16
ProfBuehler's team presents "recursive meta-intelligence": an AI that creates its own scientific instruments, turns them into persistent worlds inhabited by an ecology of hundreds of AIs, and uses them to discover mechanistic principles of how complex hierarchical materials evolve and fail. The system reasons across vast spaces of physical trajectories—where each rupture changes what can happen next—and compresses these histories into human-comprehensible design principles.
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