RCT: LLMs fail to significantly boost novices' wet-lab molecular biology success
shae_mcl · x · 2026-09-16
A randomized controlled trial tested whether LLMs help novices do molecular biology wet-lab tasks: only 7% of LLM users got 3/5 tasks right vs 5% with internet alone — no significant end-to-end uplift, below expert predictions.
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