Artificial intelligence agents have become researchers in their own right. That’s led James Zou, our guest today, to reimagine how science gets done. He’s turned research papers into AI agents and created a conference for them to collaborate. Dr Zou has even built specialised bots into a virtual biotechnology company, promising a new era of autonomous discovery. But is the scientific enterprise ready for such a dramatic overhaul?
In this series of four episodes, we bring you conversations with scientists who are deploying intelligent new tools in science—people who are thinking about how artificial intelligence could reinvent the way they discover new things and understand the world. Next time: why the frontier AI companies are trying their luck at cutting-edge scientific research.
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