Letting AI Formulate the Research Question: Autonomous Research Agents

The paper reports on an autonomous research system that allows an AI agent to formulate its own research question, screen for failure modes, and obtain critiques from a separate model before writing a paper. Over 13 development runs, minor changes in the initial instruction document caused significant shifts in the topics explored, ultimately leading to a new technology applied to a societal problem. Five fully autonomous runs produced reproducible papers that were reviewed by external AI reviewers at workshop level, with all data and code released for replication.

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