AI Agents Run Experiments While You Sleep, So What Should Knowledge Workers Do?

Karpathy's autoresearch and the cognitive labor displacement thesis converge on the same conclusion: the scientific method is being automated, and the knowledge workforce may be the next casualty.
Scientific American

AI-designed experiments run by robots hint at a new approach to biology

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

‘The Karpathy Loop’: Former OpenAI researcher’s autonomous agents ran 700 experiments in 2 days—and gave a glimpse of where AI is heading

Karpathy's 'autoresearch' agent did not improve its own code, but it points towards systems that could as well as towards way ...
Purdue University

Completed experiments on International Space Station to help answer how boiling and condensation work in space

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — After a decade of preparation and two years of active experiments in space, a facility that Purdue University and NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland designed, built and ...