Beyond AI as Assistants: Toward Autonomous Discovery in Cosmology
Researchers demonstrate two AI agent systems—CMBEvolve and CosmoEvolve—capable of autonomous scientific discovery in cosmology, moving beyond AI-as-tool toward AI-as-researcher. CMBEvolve uses code evolution for quantitative tasks while CosmoEvolve manages open-ended research workflows, both showing promising results in detecting anomalies and analyzing astronomical data without human intervention.