Eliezer Van Allen, Chandra Nohria Family Chair for AI in Cancer Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, shared a post on X:
“In our latest, we tested elements of cancer biology research using Anthropic AI.
AI agents, with varying amounts of human involvement across multi-step, multi-omic analyses Interesting times for agentic AI and biological discovery, and for the future of (cancer) biology research…especially since this is currently the worst these technologies will ever be at these (and other) tasks.”

Title: Evaluating agentic AI for biological discovery in autonomous and copilot settings
Authors: Shreya Johri, Erica Maria Pimenta, Josephine Yates, Jingxin Fu, Erik L. Bao, Hyeji Jun, Brendan Reardon, Sasha Bacot, Maha Shady, Doris Fu, Wenbin Mei, Sabrina Y. Camp, Jihye Park, Eliezer Van Allen
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