Letting AI Formulate the Research Question: Autonomous Research Agents
arXiv:2610.39620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Systems such as The AI Scientist have shown that AI agents can carry out and write up research, but in those demonstrations humans chose the research area and selected the outputs to show. We study letting the AI formulate the research question itself, and we report every run. Our system gives an off-the-shelf coding agent an instruction document and two skills: one for formulating the question, in which the agent diverges from recent technologies…