"The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated
Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
Chris Lu1,2,*, Cong Lu3,4,*, Robert Tjarko Lange1,*, Jakob Foerster2,, Jeff Clune3,4,5, and David Ha1,
*Equal Contribution, 1Sakana AI, 2FLAIR, University of Oxford, 3University of British Columbia, 4Vector Institute, 5Canada CIFAR
AI Chair, Equal Advising
One of the grand challenges of artificial general intelligence is developing agents capable of conducting
scientific research and discovering new knowledge. While frontier models have already been used as aids
to human scientists, e.g. for brainstorming ideas, writing code, or prediction tasks, they still conduct
only a small part of the scientific process. This paper presents the first comprehensive framework for
fully automatic scientific discovery, enabling frontier large language models (LLMs) to perform research
independently and communicate their findings. We introduce The AI Scientist, which generates
novel research ideas, writes code...."