Claude-Discovered Algorithm Sparks Credit Debate: Paper Says No Human Input
JAldrichPL · x · 2026-10-06
A debate erupted over a paper claiming an algorithm was developed by Claude spending millions of tokens with no human input. Mathematician JAldrichPL argues humans still did crucial work—identifying problems, guiding agents, understanding and strengthening the algorithm, and checking the problem encoding. Critics counter that the paper explicitly states the discovery required no human intervention, making it unfair to credit the authors. The dispute centers on how to assign credit in AI-driven scientific discovery between autonomous model output and human guidance.
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