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When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?

MIT Technology Review examines the question of when an AI system can truly be credited with making a scientific discovery. As AI tools increasingly generate hypotheses, run experiments and produce research results, scientists and philosophers are debating what threshold of autonomy and understanding would justify calling a discovery AI's own rather than that of its human collaborators.

Why now: AI's growing role in research is prompting debate over how to attribute credit for discoveries.

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