AI scientists can compress months into minutes; choosing one still requires old-fashioned scrutiny.
Nature surveyed general and specialist research agents after a Stanford geneticist used Claude Science to reanalyse his genome in about 30 minutes, compared with a 31-person, nine-month clinical analysis he led in 2010.
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A dramatic time comparison is not a controlled accuracy study. Research agents differ in data access, auditability, tool integration, privacy, and domain depth, and plausible outputs can conceal consequential errors.
Prospective head-to-head evaluations on unpublished questions, expert-review burden, reproducibility of tool calls, privacy controls, and documented rates of caught and uncaught error.
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