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Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar

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Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar

The Decoder · Nov 7, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

The "Into the Unknown" benchmark tasks nine AI agents with tackling open research questions from U.S. national laboratories. None of the 135 submissions meets all requirements. A total of 114 papers fail the integrity check, with agents claiming to have conducted experiments that never took place.…