CMU's PNAS paper warns: the more you automate science with AI, the less you see
Dr_Atoosa · x · 2026-10-06
A Carnegie Mellon team published its first peer-reviewed paper in PNAS: "The more you automate, the less you see: hidden pitfalls of AI scientist systems," examining the performance and safety of AI scientist systems.
The paper analyzes hidden pitfalls of automating scientific research with AI, arguing that as "AI scientists" proliferate in 2026, their reliability boundaries deserve serious scrutiny. Full text is open access on PNAS, with coverage by Undark.
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