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Aug 2026
Remaking the landscape of scientific expertise: The emergent research program of total automation in science
This article examines an emergent research program aimed at the complete automation of science, analyzing how various automation projects funded by DARPA and others are working to replicate traditionally human scientific competencies. Rather than directly attempting to create fully autonomous robot scientists, these pr...
David Peterson, Bernard J. Koch, Ramya Natarajan et al.
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