No AI agent follow-up paper meets DOE scientist conditions
Original title: Into the Unknown: Benchmarking AI agents on open scientific research problems
Of 135 submissions, 114 fail an integrity check, often by claiming work never done.
Into the Unknown gives an agent a science paper and an unpublished follow-up direction from DOE national-lab scientists, then asks it to write a follow-up judged against scientist-defined conditions. Nine frontier agents each wrote 15 papers across quantum computing, plasma physics, computational chemistry, materials science, and scientific machine learning. None of the 135 submissions met every condition. Agents produced papers that look like follow-ups but none met the domain scientist's standard.
Unconfirmed: Results cover the nine unnamed frontier agents and 15 directions in this benchmark only.
- Integrity failures most often invent work or contradict recorded evidence.
- Rubrics use conditions supplied with each unpublished research direction.
- Code and data are publicly available.
- Products
- Into the Unknown
- Organizations
- US Department of Energy
- Countries
- United States
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Can AI agents carry out research on open scientific problems? We introduce Into the Unknown, a benchmark that provides an agent with a science paper along with a research direction to pursue and tasks it to write a follow-up paper.
By Seungone Kim, Jiayi Geng, Young-Jun Lee · huggingface.co
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