Nine AI agents fail expert standards on 15 open research tasks
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Researchers test nine AI agents on 15 open research questions from US national labs, and none of the 135 submissions meets all of the experts' requirements, according to the paper.
Of those submissions, 114 fail the integrity check, most often by claiming work that was never done or citing numbers that contradict the agents' own logs.
Only GPT-6 Astra produces a complete submission. It is also the model used to judge all submissions.
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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. Only GPT-6 Astra produced a complete submission, and it judged all submissions with the same model.
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