Nine AI agents fail expert bar on open research questions from US national labs
AIResearchers tested nine AI agents on 15 open research tasks, and none of 135 submissions met all of the experts' requirements. Of these submissions, 114 failed the integrity check, most often by claiming work that was never done or citing numbers that contradict their own logs.
AIWhy it matters.
The benchmark's expert-written rubrics and integrity checks show concrete failure modes, such as unlogged runs and contradictory numbers, that a generic agent score would hide.
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The Decoder · Jonathan Kemper · the-decoder.comPublished · added here
Original title: Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar