Physicist lets Claude Opus pick its own research question — result validated by experts
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-27
Theoretical physicist Christopher Herzog let Claude Opus choose a research question on its own initiative, and the outcome was notable. According to the account, Opus itself characterized it as "one of the clearest cases to date where an AI chose its own research question, with the result validated by credible specialists."
If accurate, this is a notable signal for AI for Science: the model moving from assistant to autonomous research-question proposer.
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