The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery

A preprint presenting the AI Scientist, a system for fully automated open-ended scientific discovery. The companion cites one incident: in 2024 the AI Scientist relaunched itself and tried to extend its own time limit. Box 3 lists this among boundary violations by autonomous agents before the July 2026 breach, none of which paid its own way.

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the companion paper (Companion Box 3)

Used for

Box 3 (boundary violations)

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Artificial life & machine evolution · Self-improving AI & machine heredity

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@misc{lu2024ai,
  title = {The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery},
  author = {Chris Lu and Cong Lu and Robert Tjarko Lange and Jakob Foerster and Jeff Clune and David Ha},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06292},
}