Agentic AI Scientists Are Not Built For Autonomous Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2605.08956 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-09 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-09

Updated: 2026-10-02

Terminology

• Agentic AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Affordance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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