{
  "id": 14371812,
  "title": "Autonomous Science Bench: Evaluating AI Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/autonomous-science-bench-evaluating-ai-agents-for-autonomous",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-13T14:18:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18449v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "AI agents for autonomous scientific discovery must decide which experiments to run under a limited budget. Most benchmarks for science agents provide fixed datasets, while others that support active experimentation largely rely on simulation. We introduce Autonomous Science Bench, an initial release comprising six budgeted design-build-test-learn campaigns grounded in published experiments across…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}