AI agents can make genuine biological discoveries with minimal human direction

Artificial intelligence research, products, and impact across society.

Autonomous systems that use large language models to plan, reason, and take actions — including browsing the web, writing code, calling APIs, and completing multi-step tasks with minimal human intervention.

Accelerating scientific discovery using machine learning and AI methods.

Novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats, called array-associated reverse transcriptases, that Claude agents identified in bacteriophage genomes in 2026 with little human direction, through Anthropic's life sciences research group.

In October 2026 Anthropic reported that an internal Claude research model, prompted with investment research firm Citrini Research, designed protein binders against five scorpion neurotoxins; 17 of 211 lab-tested designs bound their targets, and none has yet been shown to neutralize venom.