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Auditing Discovery Claims: A Two-Sided Criterion for Agentic Science, with the Negative Side Decidable
A paper tests agentic-science claims against outside adjudicators.
Why it matters: Discovery claims need checks beyond the predictor used for optimization, although this evidence is limited to the abstract.
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