A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.
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Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems are beginning to assist, accelerate, and partially automate scientific discovery, performing tasks that span literature synthesis, code generation, data analysis, hypothesis proposal, and model criticism. We argue that this transition is qualitative rather than incremental, and that suitably designed multi-agent systems may evolve from passive computational tools into ``AI scientists'' that can expand the hypothesis-generating and verification capacity of science.
arXiv:2609.19134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific code repositories encode decades of human knowledge in executable models, methods, and tools. Yet fragmented toolchains, implicit domain con...
arXiv:2608. 14667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model-based agents are increasingly deployed as collaborators in scientific discovery yet most current work focuses on the autonomous capabilities of "AI Scientists".
arXiv:2607. 16845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientists at European XFEL conduct experiments that generate very large and complex datasets.
The Perspective reviews the rapid growth of agentic AI systems in computational chemistry, noting an increase from a handful in 2024 to about fifty by August 2026. These systems are evolving from assisting with specific tasks to autonomously designing, executing, and analyzing in‑silico experiments, even drafting manuscripts. While fully autonomous AI scientists are not yet realized and human oversight remains, the trend toward commoditized generalist agents suggests a future where specialized systems may become obsolete, prompting reflection on the field’s direction and priorities.
As AI agents are increasingly deployed in complex environments, understanding their behaviors becomes critical. Yet behavioral scientific research on AI agents remains manual and labor-intensive.