papersSEP 10 04:00 UTC
Researchers Propose Discovery Certification Protocol for Auditing AI Research Agents
An arXiv paper argues that benchmark scores by themselves are not sufficient evidence that AI research agents have made genuine scientific discoveries. The authors introduce the Discovery Certification Protocol, which converts an agent's claimed results into executable recovery and feedback tests that can be independently run. The first of its gates checks that reported results can actually be reproduced from the recorded evidence.